At the Pond: Remove bird feeders to help combat disease
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Members of the Davis High Environmental Club are now regular volunteers at the new Uplands Open Space at F Street and Anderson Road. They are involved in reestablishing California native habitat. From left are students Leela Ghassemi, Olivia Kim, Hanni Yu, Jared Umphress, Emma Haines, Lewis Herring-Tillman and Mattias Rowenbale, open space coordinator Chris Garner and regular volunteer Robert Wiedenfeld. Not pictured is Yusuf Abdelnur.
Cecile Umphress/Courtesy photo
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The California Department of Fish and Game is encouraging Northern California residents to remove bird feeders for a month to help slow an outbreak of salmonellosis, a disease affecting small brown birds known as pine siskins that live primarily in wooded areas. Pine siskins have been coming through Davis in unusually large numbers.