<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The blue eyes suggest it was in its first year out of the nest. Don’t know but think perching birds are less likely to have the avian flu in 2023 than some other groups.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Larry Schwitters</div><div class="">IssaquaH<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 9, 2023, at 12:48 PM, Betty Watson <<a href="mailto:rocky98502@gmail.com" class="">rocky98502@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Yesterday morning (July 8) around 6:00 a.m., I started outside to change bird water containers. Before I even went outside, however, I could hear at least 2, possibly 3, crows squawking loudly and continuously while perched close by--very raucous and loud. The noisy crows piqued my interest and after changing and refreshing the water containers, I checked nearby and soon discovered a nearly dead crow, feet up, in my strawberry bed. Its visible blue eye stared blankly and blinked slowly once or twice as I observed. In the time it took to go inside to fetch a glove and garbage bag, it had died. Its blue eye was now white-lidded; the body motionless and stiff.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The crow appeared to me to be a juvenile or sub-adult due to its smaller size though it could have simply been extremely malnourished--it felt pretty light when I picked it up. The crow's exterior appeared intact, undamaged and whole. Once I removed the body, the adult crows stopped squawking and flew away. (I had this eerie sense that the crows dropped this sick bird off, because I have never ever seen a crow in my strawberry bed box before.) (Just sayin')<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I reported to WDFW, using their website form. It's now been 24 hours and I am officially disposing of the body in my garbage can. Am keeping a keen eye on my visiting feathered friends and so far nobody else appears sick or strange-acting. Also reporting on my community's NextDoor in case this is not a one-off. <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Betty <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"> <br class=""></div></div>
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