And here, after minutes of playing around with maps, are the counties in which there have been records of wild birds with positive H5N8 records (pink) and the rough locations (blue sprayed areas) of outbreaks in captive poultry/birds.
I reckon there are more pink-shaded counties to come and quite possibly a lot more blue splodges.
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two comments from Cambridgeshire site managers on our local bird forum:
1 “There are some confirmed cases of bird flu at both the Ouse and Nene Washes, staff at both sites regularly report dead swans to the hotline, giving a good sample of the case rate. This is normal for the time of year, though there may be an increased incidence this winter. Not a great deal can happen if more are reported other than to cause alarm that wild birds are spreading bird flu, nothing unusual there! ”
2 “I’m not an expert, but a friend told me that a number of swans are dying due to eating rotting potatoes. Anyone else heard about this? Yes, over consumption of rotting potato’s can cause death and be attributed to symptoms of bird flu prior to lab testing”