After word got around Sunday night that several Metro stations had been temporarily closed due to dozens of dead birds appearing around them, Metro officials spent the day yesterday trying to figure out how to explain away the fact that the mistake their contractor had made was not that they had poisoned the birds — merely that they had poisoned the birds at the wrong time of day, and didn’t have a chance to clean…

We were still asleep this morning and didn’t realize there were major delays on the Red Line until 7:30 a.m. WMATA has posted a release about the discovery and repair of a section of “defective” tracks between the Friendship Heights and Bethesda stations. From WMATA: A Metro contractor who conducts specialized track inspections while the Metrorail system is closed to customers, identified the problem with a stretch of track between the Bethesda and Friendship Heights…