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Fished Smithville with a buddy Saturday .. the fishing wasn't very good, but we stumbled upon a bird (looks like a duck to me) hanging dead with his head/neck stuck between a branch split in the tree. We had a couple of theories, but I'm curious how you guys think this happened ..
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Looks like a comorant to me,,,, limb break and he got hung?
Not sure about the bird but that tree row looks really good. I have got to get back up there for some more late summer slabs out of the hedge forest above W bridge. Got to get my guide Dexter to show me the way again.
That there is a mystery. Branch had to break while the bird was perched, I would think? But how it got its neck stuck in there....that I have no idea.
Not sure it's a duck though, but I'm sure you had a better look at it. Wings look awfully far back. But that could be what they do when it dies?
Whereabouts was this? Not that I want to go get a closer look. Just want to know where NOT to fish! rotfl
Looks like a comorant to me! Plenty of them shark duxs around Eating all our fish!
it's a cormorant I bet
yep we call em fish buzzardsQuote:
Originally Posted by kdavid1
I'm not familiar with my birds, so I'm sure you guys are right on the comorant. I just can't figure out how it happened. What you can't see in the photos is another small branch that stuck out from under the bird .. almost like he would've been landing on that branch. I would think if the top perch would've split, he would've kept himself from falling straight down. ?? :dono
You so funny!! Thumbs Up But, you're definitely right .. the fish weren't biting around there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joedog
Limb probably broke when it landed or when it was trying to take flight. Strange twist of fate...but somehow his head went down into the fork of those limbs strangling it or breaking it's neck?!?:dono
That bird has been hanging there at least 2 weeks if you took that picture up in Roberts branch, can't imagine more than one like that at Smithville?!?! I thought it was a bird dangling from the tree but was out in the lane heading in and was too hot to give a closer look. Thanks for snapping a photo, Bill. That's just crazy!
I've got several idea's.
1) Heat got to his melon and he committed suicide.
2) Injuns done it.
3) MOMO aka the Missouri Monster. I think NatGeo had something on this in the boot heel, not kidding google it if you don't believe me. Probably made his way up to smithville.
4) Could have been my Grandma she's pretty mean and hates cormorants. :witching
Thats all the logical explanations I can think of right now.
My uncle mentioned he thought it might be "texting while flying". Rofl
It's Bush's fault.
DANG!! Beat me to it!Quote:
Originally Posted by FAADAN
Saw the same thing at Mark Twain about two years ago. Not sure if it was the same type of bird, but same results
good riddance
I have no clue how that would happen, I like the texting anfd flying idea:dono but I bet in another week or so, when the maggots start falling out, it will be a dandy spot to fish. if you can stand the smell.:fish
Like everyone else, got tired of catching dinks at Smithville and killed himself
Must have heard Beagle Singing!:biggrin
JACK JACK JACK your still bad mouthing Smithville I would have thought you would have been over that by know,theres good fish in Smithville you just wanted to get close to the big boats and seados so you could watch the women you didnt really want to fish.:yikes:yikes:yikesQuote:
Originally Posted by jackb
:biggrin you found me out.Quote:
Originally Posted by got crappie
frosty is just plain mean,
now to the bird, in two more days, tree baked turdunkinfish and cabbage..... yum yum....
my singing has soothed the masses.```
Billy, I still think it is because of the weather.....you know....it is so freaking hot even the birds are commiting suicide... :)
Looks like a "lawyer bird" who lost a case and committed suicide.
Prolly was thinking about the possibility of "four more years" of King Ohhhh Bama and just decided it wasn't worth the effort.
do da do da oh the do da...... If I were a king I would sell hamburgers
If someone figures out let us know so we can give it a try down here.
Obamacare could have saved him!
I've been calling that bird "suicide duck" , and it's been there for more than a year!! It is a cormorant and my guess is that it was trying to land and got it's head stuck in that vee. I keep thinking it will rot away, but it hasn't even lost many feathers in all the time it's been there.
That was my thought also .. he was trying to land and somehow didn't see the V .. I had no idea it's been there that long .. that's crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by vic n
guess I'm wrong then, I thought it was a western cattle rustling vulture, got caught and hung at noon..... :Doh:
The bird is still there , I rode by in the boat today . Must have gave up with the poor fishing in the area . :)
I heard he caught his wife with pink flamingo and committed suicide in that tree
:yikes:yikes
Violated the wrong Commorant's daughter.
Been told this is what happens when they get too old/slow to catch fish underwater.....comorant keri.
Reminds me of the time my fishing partner Jimmy said to me, "See the bird on that stump. I'm gonna knock that sucker off with my new Fat Rap."
I knew for a fact there was no way he was capable of casting that accurately so I laughed at him. He made the cast and of course would have missed by 6 feet but the unlucky bird flew and it and plug met in mid air. The poor bird fell into the lake and began screeching like crazy. Jimmy was hollering "He's got my new Fat Rap."
I figured trying to lip him was not a very practical but I managed to trap the poor bird against the boat and unhook him. We've been laughing about that for over 20 years!
BTW, could the bird in the tree be a Lesser Blue Heron?