[CT Birds] backyard birds

[Katz1449 at aol.com]

>From Bev Propen-Orange
1/6
 
Hi Carole,
Thanks for the tips on the yard cleanup.  I have to  dedicate an afternoon to 
doing that because I have a large area which the birds  hang out in my yard.
Putting mulch over the dirty soil, is a good  idea.
Since the increase in the number of house finches with the  conjunctivitis, I 
have been cleaning my feeders more often, but I think I will  start doing it 
several times a week. This year I have had the  highest number of sick house 
finches, as well as a sick goldfinch and house  sparrows, since I have begun 
doing the Cornell survey.
Several years ago, I had caught one of the sick house  finches which I 
brought to the Ansonia Nature Center. It did  recover.  But I now keep Meredith 
Sampson's and Jayne Amico's phone numbers  on me, in case I am able to catch 
another finch.
 



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