Date: 1/27/25 6:27 pm
From: Bruce Black <bruce...>
Subject: Re: [MASSBIRD] making changes to bird feeding due to avian influenza?
FYI , from Cornell:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/avian-influenza-outbreak-should-you-take-down-your-bird-feeders/


On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM Lynette Leka <lynetteleka...> wrote:

> It's so hard to know - from what I've read/heard the virus has been found
> infecting farmed stock and larger wild birds, so I want to think our yard
> feeder birds will not be susceptible; but at the same time, their numbers
> are down - from the virus, or due to prolonged cold and other factors...?
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> (by)..."not noticing birds in one's daily environment, one misses a whole
> segment of life on earth that can deliver joy every day." Bruce M. Beehler,
> 2019
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> Lynette Leka
> Newbury, MA 01951
> email: <lynette.leka...>
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> On Monday, January 27, 2025 at 03:58:39 PM EST, Liz Pease <
> <lizpease...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> As I'm reading more and more about the H5N1 situation, I'm beginning to
> wonder about when it makes sense to stop feeding wild birds, or at least
> move my feeding location away from where our pets and kids play. That said,
> I absolutely don't want to do so in the middle of the coldest months. I'm
> feeling very torn about it.
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> I'm curious to hear how others are thinking about this. I don't want to
> over- or under-react here.
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> Thanks,
> Liz
> <lizpease...>
> Salisbury
>
> --
> Liz Pease
> (she, her, hers)
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>

 
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