Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:53:04 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Janet Millenson Subject: Re: West Nile MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Two evenings ago, there was a female Cardinal in a bad way -- feathers fluffed, eyes shut -- sitting near our little pond, and later that night I had to fish out her corpse. Maybe it was a case of West Nile Virus...? We all remember seeing sick House Finches a few years ago, but this is much scarier. We should also worry about the migrants that will be passing through soon. What kind of inoculation are some zoo birds receiving? (See Maryanne Dolan's posting.) I didn't know there was any way to protect against infection by West Nile. I no longer take my parrot outside because of the quantity and quickness of the mosquitoes this summer. Janet Millenson Potomac, MD janet@twocrows.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================