Sorry, forgot to add this.  Late last fall, I had to
place two house finches out of their misery b/c of
conjuntivitous.  Since then, feeders have stayed
clean, and no problems.

Lynn Miller
Lone Jack,MO
Jackson CO

--- frances cramer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We have had a plentiful supply of both House Finches
> and Goldfinches all
> winter, both here in St. Joseph (Buchanan Co.) and
> at the Bean Lake cabin
> (Platte Co.)
> 10 and 15 House Finches going crazy over safflower
> and sunflower feed.
> All 8 perches on 2 niger feeders will be filled with
> Goldfinches, and there
> have been times at the cabin when we counted 35
> Goldfinches on the ground
> beneath the feeders. And no, I have not observed any
> evidence of the avian
> conjunctivitis this winter. (Saw some in winter of
> '01/'02).
> The activity at the feeders is tapering off a little
> since the days are warmer.
> No Pine Siskin...but a very interesting partial
> albino House Finch. If the
> list would let me I would attach a picture of it. Do
> not have web page.
> By the way, we found NO short-earred owls last
> evening on McComas road
> south of Plattsburg...just 1 N. harrier and many,
> many A.Tree sparrows.
>
> Frances Cramer
> St. Joseph, and Bean Lake cabin
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>
> >It is almost March, and I realize that I have
> neither seen nor heard a
> >House Finch yet this year. To be sure, I have not
> been getting out much.
> >But in past years all of the feeders in my
> neighborhood would have hosted
> >them, and by now they should be singing up and down
> my street. The feeder
> >at Antioch Park that I watched for the Pine Warbler
> this morning should
> >have had them, but did not. So should they be
> singing around my office in
> >downtown Independence, where they have nested for
> quite a few years. But
> >they are absent there, too.
> >
> >Come to think of it, my party only had one on the
> Kansas City CBC,
> >although we looked at lots of feeders, including
> those at the Burroughs
> >Audubon Library.
> >
> >I have heard that House Finches have been
> contracting an avian
> >conjunctivitis of a kind that infects captive song
> birds, but I have been
> >hearing about that for several years now without
> previously noting much
> >impact on the local House Finch population. Has an
> epidemic of that
> >finally reached us? Or is my sample just a small
> one?
> >
> >It is hard to believe that West Nile Virus has much
> to do with it.
> >
> >While I am wondering about House Finches, is their
> disappearance related
> >to the fact that I have not seen a Pine Siskin for
> over two years, and
> >very few in the Kansas City area in the several
> years before the last two?
> >If so, why are there still plenty of goldfinches
> around? Or will they be
> >next?
> >
> >
> >Bob Fisher
> >Independence, Missouri
> >[log in to unmask]
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