Is H5N1 already here in our birds?

I think that our birds already have it. Dr Niman has stated that there was some North American ploymorphisums in the Birds that where dying in Europe.

There are reports of odd behaviours in Crows and other birds.  Starlings are missing from around here, we had warm winter, so where are they? What do you think?

I think we still have a few more weeks before the birs will start coming out of there hiding spots....We had a mild day couple days back and I could hear the birds sining away..and now today dreary and cold again and all is quiet...tomorrow suppose to go to plus 7 here..yeehaw bye bye snow

maybe they don't all have it yet?

 I heard birds sing this past week...its been along time since the winter is now just coming to an end here that I heard them-but the birds are back...the big black crows in the trees in th cemetary where my son is were in all the trees....I was wondering when they would start falling from the trees..LOL Now that is morbid. sorry. 

 I think the birds have not yet become sick with the virus here but I do not think its far away before they are sick too. I predict fall or next winter to see problems with people and maybe by the end of  summer we will know if the birds here have spread it all around. The only way I think human illness would be sooner than fall or winter is if China is withholding some real secret info on this bird flu thing over there. We can't know the extent of China's problem with what they tell us, I think we would need to live there to know that.

I am an avid watermen. I live in florida and spend alot of time at the beach and in the everglades.

Those dam blue jays still wake me up.

That dam red headed woodpecker still is pecking on my metal lamp post.

Those noisey parrots at the gas station is still squaking up a storm.

The 3 black ducks hangout while we are wakeboarding.

no dead birds in the everglades.

So far so good? 

My best guess as to the reality of Bird Flu int eh America's, is that youve had it for a while, but in either very low amounts (ie only a very low %age of birds infected) or a strain that doesnt do too much. What will probably change in the coming months, is that you will get a different strain being brought in, and maybe a much higher percentage of birds willg et infected, with the usual consequences. Will it be enough to cause significant infections on poultry farms and in other mammals and humans? Only time will tell, I mean it still isnt clear how much bird flu there is in Western Europe. Here in the UK we still havent found any, as far as we know. It could well be that Europe isnt in such a differnt position to the US right now, we may have some H5N1 but not enough to have made a huge impact yet, but int he coming months new waves of bird migration may bring new strains or new quantities of bird flu to our region.

It seems that there is a lack of data about the actual amount of H5N1 that is around in different aprts of the world. We only find out for sure that there is a nasty H5N1 when it has very obvious effects.