DeposeTheBoyKing
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:04 PM
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There's a little dead bird in our back yard |
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A little finch or sparrow. The ants are already climbing all over it. Poor thing. I'm not used to dealing with dead birds in my yard; what should I do?
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:05 PM
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let Mother Earth absorb the corpse.
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HereSince1628
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:07 PM
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2. I'd do nothing and leave it for the critters |
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:19 PM
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If you're in the Sacramento area, it's probably a west nile virus dead bird.
Careful.
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Lisa
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:23 PM
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4. seconded -- don't touch without disposable gloves |
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There was a recent case here in Canada, where someone got WNV after contact with a contaminate bird corpse.
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DeposeTheBoyKing
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:26 PM
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We have a bird feeder, and it's lying close to that. I wonder if it got into an altercation; there are a few black feathers lying around (look like a cowbird's feathers, perhaps).
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:26 PM
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We're supposed to have dead birds tested if intact and unmarked.
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:28 PM
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7. I don't know how long it's been there |
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It does look like its little face is partially bashed in. Poor thing. I haven't touched it, though!
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:31 PM
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10. I know how you feel. Poor little thing. |
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But if I were you I'd let him be, and let nature take him back.
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:28 PM
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8. An inverted zip lock baggie would protect you to pick it up. |
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Sat Aug-27-05 04:29 PM
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I put on my gardening gloves I get a garden spade (the small hand one) and dig a hole in the garden, pick the bird up with the spade and drop it in and cover it up. I thrust the spade in the soil to clean in off.
You can do the same with a regular shovel.
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