Saturday, July 29, 2006

West Nile found again on LI

"The public is encouraged to report dead or dying birds to the state hotline at 866-537-2473 or Suffolk County Department of Health at 631-853-8405. " West Nile found again on LI NEWSDAY article I once called in to the NYC Health Dept., after a WNBC newscast asked if people who had seen birds dead or dying would call. I also, before 311, tried to notify the NYC administration when a dead red tail hawk (large) was seen by me and a passenger on the Bronx River Parkway, in the fast lane. The call was long and torturous as then the City had a weird switchboard to follow to get to speak to anyone about it. The crows were in the "Old Soldier Cemetery" where people are not permitted then being re-fenced near the Bronx Zoo (a block or two from it on 180th St.), near the Bronx River, and the hawk was on the Bronx River Parkway between the Zoo and the Botanical Gardens back in 1999. Quoth the "raven" "Nevermore!" A TV news reporter gave me his cell phone number after that and told me to call him, recounting the story. There's an interesting story online I've used from China's school children. In their science class they cut plastic soda bottles near the shoulder, pour in some brown sugar mixed with water, add a little yeast, invert the bottle top into the vessel, tape it secure, cover with dark plastic and put in a dark corner. Mosquitoes and bugs are attracted to the CO2 and get in and don't get out! Traps a lot of insects.

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