https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138780#M415952 <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN class="" quote_author="">On 8/8/2014 <STRONG>raven-blackbird</STRONG> said:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>that's what I asked you...........if you were sure they weren't drunk..........................raven</P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I didn't hook them up to a breathalyzer...or even poke them. When birds are on their backs with their legs up in the air....they look dead to me! They were robins...I couldn't figure out how to do CPR.</P> <P>I assumed yesterday that the groundskeeper had picked them up and thrown them out (or called to have them tested).</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:59:25 GMT terrier3 2014-08-08T19:59:25Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138650#M415887 <P>Besides being extremely bad luck...why would this be happening?</P> <P>Yesterday two died side by side next to a large tree (maybe an overgrown bush - about 20 feet tall) that has dark purple raspberry shaped berries. They eat them like crazy (and poop them like crazy too.)</P> <P>Today a bird was just sitting on the grass...didn't move when I came up to it.</P> <P>Could they be eating the berries and getting high? or poisoned?</P> <P> </P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:40:09 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138650#M415887 terrier3 2014-08-08T17:40:09Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138656#M415890 <P>Around where I live dead birds are reported to Animal Control immediately. West Nile virus-</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:41:42 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138656#M415890 kdgn 2014-08-08T17:41:42Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138661#M415892 <P>Something is getting to them. Please report it ASAP! West Nile is a problem in our area, too.</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:43:27 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138661#M415892 Preds 2014-08-08T17:43:27Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138666#M415894 I'd make a call, terrier. Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:43:28 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138666#M415894 tansy 2014-08-08T17:43:28Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138671#M415896 <P>You certainly should have reported this by now if birds are dropping dead all around you.</P> <P><IMG src="https://community.qvc.com/" /></P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:44:45 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138671#M415896 minkbunny 2014-08-08T17:44:45Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138678#M415898 <P>I hadn't thought of that!</P> <P>I'll have to find out what the building manager did with the bodies...</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:44:56 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138678#M415898 terrier3 2014-08-08T17:44:56Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138682#M415900 <P>Is this the fruit they are eating? Mulberries?</P> <DIV><A rel="" nofollow="" target="_blank"><IMG src="https://community.qvc.com/" /></A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:46:28 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138682#M415900 minkbunny 2014-08-08T17:46:28Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138687#M415902 <P>Do they spray pesticides around your house?</P> <P>If so, the birds could be getting poisoned.</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:48:48 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138687#M415902 azterry! 2014-08-08T17:48:48Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138692#M415904 <P>Oh, I love Mulberries!<IMG src="http://community.qvc.com/DesktopModules/ExactTarget/Controls/TextEditor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/001_wub.gif" alt="{#emotions_dlg.wub}" /></P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:49:24 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138692#M415904 Preds 2014-08-08T17:49:24Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138697#M415906 <P>Or someone could be maliciously putting poison out? Or maybe there's a dangerous chemical or gas that seeped into the ground?</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:50:25 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138697#M415906 focksie 2014-08-08T17:50:25Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138701#M415908 <P>terrier,</P> <P>Find out if your town/county did an aerial spraying for bugs. </P> <P> </P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:50:46 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138701#M415908 dmod nj 2014-08-08T17:50:46Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138706#M415910 <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN class="quote_author">On 8/8/2014 <STRONG>Preds</STRONG> said:</SPAN> <P>Oh, I love Mulberries!<IMG src="http://community.qvc.com/DesktopModules/ExactTarget/Controls/TextEditor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/001_wub.gif" alt="{#emotions_dlg.wub}" /></P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Me, too. I grew up with a huge mulberry tree in our yard and yes, we have a HUGE one on the farm.</P> <P><IMG src="http://community.qvc.com/DesktopModules/ExactTarget/Controls/TextEditor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/thumbup.gif" alt="{#emotions_dlg.thumbup}" /></P> <P> </P> <P> </P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:51:44 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138706#M415910 minkbunny 2014-08-08T17:51:44Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138711#M415912 West Nile is usually given to humans through mosquito bites. in this area we are to report dead birds that are then picked up. We even had a 70 year old woman die several days ago of West Nile. Usually people just have flu symptoms. Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:54:49 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138711#M415912 chessylady 2014-08-08T17:54:49Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138716#M415914 <P>It's probably West Nile...</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:56:32 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138716#M415914 brii 2014-08-08T17:56:32Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138720#M415916 <P>they could be drunk............did ya check em..................................raven</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:59:47 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138720#M415916 raven-blackbird 2014-08-08T17:59:47Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138725#M415918 <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN class="quote_author">On 8/8/2014 <STRONG>minkbunny</STRONG> said:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN class="quote_author">On 8/8/2014 <STRONG>Preds</STRONG> said:</SPAN> <P>Oh, I love Mulberries!<IMG src="http://community.qvc.com/DesktopModules/ExactTarget/Controls/TextEditor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/001_wub.gif" alt="{#emotions_dlg.wub}" /></P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Me, too. I grew up with a huge mulberry tree in our yard and yes, we have a HUGE one on the farm.</P> <P><IMG src="http://community.qvc.com/DesktopModules/ExactTarget/Controls/TextEditor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/thumbup.gif" alt="{#emotions_dlg.thumbup}" /></P> <P> </P> <P> </P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I spent summers with my grandparents and that's where I discovered them. Spent a lot of time in those trees pigging out. <IMG src="http://community.qvc.com/DesktopModules/ExactTarget/Controls/TextEditor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/001_wub.gif" alt="{#emotions_dlg.wub}" /><IMG src="http://community.qvc.com/DesktopModules/ExactTarget/Controls/TextEditor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/laugh.gif" alt="{#emotions_dlg.laugh}" /> Oh, how I miss them .... grandparents and mulberries. LOL</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:01:46 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138725#M415918 Preds 2014-08-08T18:01:46Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138730#M415921 <P>perhaps someone used a toxic spray or something that got on their food source or in the water they drink....</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:02:24 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138730#M415921 gazelle77 2014-08-08T18:02:24Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138735#M415924 <P><EM>How awful??? I hope you find out the cause!</EM></P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:02:57 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138735#M415924 emmysmom 2014-08-08T18:02:57Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138740#M415927 <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN class="quote_author">On 8/8/2014 <STRONG>minkbunny</STRONG> said:</SPAN> <P>Is this the fruit they are eating? Mulberries?</P> <DIV><A rel="nofollow" title="Mulberries: Picture of Mulberry Tree Fruit" href="http://treepicturesonline.com/mulberrytree-berry.htm" target="_blank"><IMG src="http://treepicturesonline.com/images/tree-mulberry/mulberrytree-berry_.jpg" alt="Mulberries: Picture of Mulberry Tree Fruit | Trees:Mulberry+Fruit @ TreePicturesOnline.com" /></A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>YES!</P> <P>My formerly silver SUV is now purple polka dotted, thanks to the birds and the berries.</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:02:59 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138740#M415927 terrier3 2014-08-08T18:02:59Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138745#M415930 <P>Yes, they do stain, terrier. Ours is located in a wooded area, luckily. They are very beneficial trees to wildlife so unless they were sprayed with a pesticide, there must be another problem.</P> <P>You say you have a property manager (condo apartment, I believe?) I would certainly expect the owner of the building to be on top of this as soon as possible.</P> <P>Scary stuff.</P> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:06:17 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Birds-are-dropping-dead-all-around-my-house/m-p/1138745#M415930 minkbunny 2014-08-08T18:06:17Z