Bird flu in Lincolnshire

Maybe the starlings and blackbirds that usually visit my garden for the berry harvest have been struck down with the avian flu. Even on me patch seen next to none of blackbirds, the farmer at Nebraska mentioned a shortage of them. The last two years here the blackbirds have had very few juvs be it to cats or whatever, years before that I sometimes had three pair nesting in garden, suppose one reason could be that next door took their 12' high privet hedge down and replaced it with fencing, always had at three nests in it. But there are plentiful places for them to nest in both front and back gardens. 

Time will tell.

Max

Another poultry farm in Lincolnshire has been hit by the avian influenza virus.

The premises, which has not been named, is in North Somercotes.

Elsewhere, there have been at least two new cases in Norfolk.

The birds at all the premises are said to have been "humanely culled".

 

From DEFRA today:

1. 22 October 2022
   Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 confirmed in commercial poultry at premises near Woodhall Spa, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, near Aylsham, Broadland, Norfolk and near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire.
2. A 3km Protection Zone and 10km Surveillance Zone has been declared around each of the premises. 
3. All poultry on the premises will be humanely culled.