<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="">And I’ll add to that “what do you feed them?” I assume you’re talking about the Eastern Cottontails that are all over western Washington at this time. I had never heard of feeding wild rabbits, which are basically leaf-eaters. We have them in our yard in Seattle every once in a while, and as we have no garden for them to damage, I have often wondered if we could keep them around by feeding them something, as we do the birds and squirrels.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 19, 2025, at 11:30 AM, Karen Deyerle via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydpee8e21e5yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div class=""></div>
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On Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 10:48:09 AM PST, creinsch via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:
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<div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Found a dead male Annas this morning which left me with questions. <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Sitting on top of a rabbit feeding station, it looked healthy, but was <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">soaked by the rain and had died sometime in the previous 12 hours. <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Note: It was not particularly cold last night, so I do not believe <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">weather was a factor.<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Questions:<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Have there been verified reports of hummingbirds catching Avian <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">influenza ("AI")?<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Have people suspended feeding hummingbirds (and other wild birds for <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">that matter)?<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Have there been other reports in Tweeters possibly related to AI that I <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">have missed?<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Any other thoughts?<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Chuck Reinsch<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Seattle, Magnolia<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">_______________________________________________<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Tweeters mailing list<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters</a><br class=""></div></div>
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