I read the message from Judy Pollack with great interest. I live in Western Fayette County and at our place we've had 4 dead House Finches and several sick ones in the last 10 days or so. We made a grisly discovery Tuesday night when we found bird #4 dead in the feeder. The local Health Dept. would not examine them for West Nile; they only want Crows and Blue Jays. I am familiar with Conjunctivitis/"House Finch Disease" and these birds didn't appear to have it. Their eyes looked normal. I began to think perhaps it was Salmonellosis and yesterday spent several hours disinfecting everything with a 10% bleach solution. Now, after reading the message from Chicago, I am not so sure. Hello Earle Davidson. Judy Dorsey West TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================