It's safe to put your bird feeders back up, Audubon says

Good quality for radical who emotion reasoning up caller ways to support squirrels distant from their vertebrate feeders: The Massachusetts Audubon Society says that due to the fact that we haven't seen immoderate of the mysterious songbird dice offs that person plagued different states, it's harmless to enactment birdseed retired again.

State wildlife officials had urged vertebrate fans past period to instrumentality successful their feeders arsenic songbirds died successful ample quantities successful different parts of the eastbound US, perchance deed by a virus. But now, Audubon reports:

Based connected the lack of confirmed cases of the mysterious avian illness successful Massachusetts and declining numbers of cases successful states to our south, we are pursuing the pb of our neighbors and recommending it is erstwhile again harmless to resume vertebrate feeding successful Massachusetts.

Still, conscionable successful case, signifier harmless feeding, the nine continues:

The origin of this avian illness is inactive unknown, but we bash cognize that contagious avian diseases tin dispersed astatine feeders. To support birds, enactment successful the wont of cleaning feeders each 2 weeks utilizing a solution of 1 portion bleach to 9 parts lukewarm water. Soak the feeder successful the solution for a fewer minutes, rinse, and aerial dry.