I have lived here for almost 25 years without any dead birds in my bird 
bath until this last Sunday..  I clean it almost daily and use WSSC 
'purified' water to refill it.  I also drink that same water and seem to 
still be alive. 

george

Patricia Valdata wrote:

> Sure it's not the water???
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> At 02:35 PM 8/18/2008, you wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> Yesterday when I went out to clean/refill my bird bath, there was a 
>> dead sparrow floating in it.  Later in the afternoon, I saw a 
>> Mourning Dove fly from my feeder down to the bird bath to take a 
>> drink.  I noticed that it seemed to lose its balance on the edge of 
>> the bath but didn't think much about it.  After drinking several 
>> times, the bird went into the bath, I assumed for a bath.  But it 
>> went head first into the water.
>> The wings fluttered twice and the body began to float in the water.
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>> I had a dead crow, that fell on my driveway, tested by the State in 
>> 2002.  It tested positive for West Nile Virus and was the 2nd bird in 
>> our Zip Code (20910) to test positive.  The Asian mosquitos are 
>> really terrible this year in my backyard.  I am wondering if others 
>> are seeing dead birds?  I was hoping we were becoming immune to the 
>> virus.
>>
>> George Lane
>>
>> East Silver Spring (20910)
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