Of 6 House Finches at our feeder last weekend, Mt Tabor neighborhood in
Portland, 3 had eye disease in at least one eye, 1 with both eyes crusty and
she kept them shut most of the time, evidently could see well enough to have
flown up to feeder, then to a spot in the sun. Earlier, this autumn, we saw
several sick Siskins among large group we had come through then, now down to
just 1-3 per weekend.
I’ve been disinfecting w bleach solution regularly. Steve
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On Jan 13, 2018, at 9:06 AM, Lars Per Norgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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My initial interest was whetted on coastal counts. People at the McMinnville
CBC countdown mentioned Conjunctivitus as a possible culprit. It would be
interesting if there are regional differences. I presume the disease is
spread
at bird feeders. And of course other things could easily be going on. Lars
On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:31 AM, Michelle & Kim Kathol wrote:
We had a record number of house finches on the January 3rd cbc this year in
redmond oregon.
Kim Kathol
Tetherow Crossing
Redmond OR.
On Jan 12, 2018 8:11 PM, "Tom McNamara" <tmcmac67@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Obol, Gerard had it exactly right, we've had almost no House Finches in
the last year + at our feeders. I don't know what's going on with them,
but somehow it seems vaguely ominous.
Seems like we've got a regular contingent ( ran into Andy and company
earlier today and just read Paul's post) of western Oregon birders over
here in the Wallowas this weekend, hopefully we can scare up something
good! Good birding all, Tom
On Jan 12, 2018 7:51 PM, "STEVE" <SJJag@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ditto Jeff's comments.
I have wondered
about this shift in feeder birds for awhile.
I wonder what's up?
Sounds wide spread around greater Pdx. at least.
Steve Jaggers
Milwaukie/Gladstone
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Subject: [obol] Re: Return of the Eurasian Collared Dove?
House Finches ar far down in Laurelhurst, Portland. Their numbers and
those of House Sparrows seemed to decline at the same time that Lesser
Goldfinches increased from none, to being the most common species in the
neighborhood.
Jeff Gilligan
On Jan 12, 2018, at 6:09 PM, Pat Truhn <pat.truhn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Cooper's Hawk at our place loves Eurasian Collared Doves, but they
seem to multiply faster than he can keep up with.
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:02 PM, Roy Lowe <roy.loweiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I noted that Dawn Harris just reported a Yaquina Bay CBC record 148
Eurasian Collared Doves. This species has been absent at my house near
Eckman Lake in Waldport for more than two years but about 10 days ago 1
appeared at our feeder. This morning the number has increased to 8 and
there's lots of courtship going on.
I hope the sharp-shinned hawk that pinned a chickadee against our bay
window recently is still around and take notice of the doves.
Roy
