[Conservababe]

Missouri is fertile ground for histoplasmosis, a fungal lung disease. In fact, I had a radiologist once tell me that most adults in the Ohio valley had some degree of this disease to show up on chest x-rays.

Birds don't carry histoplasmosis, but their poop is a mecca of a breeding ground. That is why we can't tolerate the grackles who roost by the hundreds once they have settled in a neighborhood. And that poop mildly alarmed me since it was right beside my front door.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

HHHMMMMMM....never heard of it. Since this nest is right above the front door, I try to sweep/hose it off everyday....It only really got bad when the babies had hatched. And they are only in the nest for a short period.

Becky