The North Carolina Dept of Natural Resources recommended feeder/bird bath quarantine to help break the spread of a bird salmonella pandemic ends tomorrow. Our feeder and bird bath can make a return. This guy won't have to make his way to the park stream for a bath/drink...unless he wants to. ☺
Three Good Things:
1. Daughter Elizabeth coming from Atlanta for a long Easter weekend visit!!
2. Thunderstorms
3. Good citizens
Love your processing on this - I wasn't aware that there was a feeder quarantine in your area - in a month or so, I doubt I'll maintain the feeders while the cicadas are here - I'll be self isolating in the house again!
@linnypinny The NCDNR issued a recommendation to take feeders and birdbaths down until the first of April, at which time Pine Siskins would have migrated farther north. Apparently siskins are the primary carriers of salmonella and were spreading it to other songbirds in congregate settings. There was also a quarantine issued on the west coast - Washington and Oregon - which has been rescinded. I never saw any sick birds, but read about sightings in the Charlotte area.
Good luck with the cicada invasion next month. We're on the outermost edge of the Brood X zone. Charlotte was an epicenter of a brood eruption three or four years ago. It wasn't fun. The constant whirring of cicadas at a decibel level of 100dB just about drove me to distraction.
@peggysirk Bird flu Peggy, they have been inside for months...freedom day today!
Funny isn’t it...reading above about the cicadas I only associate them with lovely warm days on holiday in NZ, I love the sound but if course don’t have to live with it!
@happypat Happy that your hens will know freedom today! Viruses (and bacteria in the case of our bird salmonella 'pandemic') seem to have had the upper hand lately - with people and creatures.
I’ve always loved the soft sound of cicadas on a warm night too, and still do. But when it’s a mega Brood emerging in a concentrated area it gets to be annoyingly loud and constant for 4-6 weeks.
Oh happy Robin! But all your birds will be thrilled for fast food again! I still need to figure out a good bird bath that barreling Labradors won’t break or drink from. Love the processing on this shot, you made it shimmer.
April 2nd, 2021
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Good luck with the cicada invasion next month. We're on the outermost edge of the Brood X zone. Charlotte was an epicenter of a brood eruption three or four years ago. It wasn't fun. The constant whirring of cicadas at a decibel level of 100dB just about drove me to distraction.
Funny isn’t it...reading above about the cicadas I only associate them with lovely warm days on holiday in NZ, I love the sound but if course don’t have to live with it!
I’ve always loved the soft sound of cicadas on a warm night too, and still do. But when it’s a mega Brood emerging in a concentrated area it gets to be annoyingly loud and constant for 4-6 weeks.