Cormorant hen pecked that is ......:Rofl
poor thing looked it played goalie for the dart team .....:Rofl
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Cormorant hen pecked that is ......:Rofl
poor thing looked it played goalie for the dart team .....:Rofl
Still grabbing a jig when it swims by. Poor critter looks pretty rough
both sides of it looked like that , sure looked beat up , set it and the others free this trip , them birds hurt our fishery bigtime , this is fact .Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
So much for once bitten twice shy
seen a few crappie darn near cut in half by them nasty black birds and still hitting jigs.
it amazes me to see fish that you would think should be near death feeding in the pack like nothing happened
Last year around the spawn I was catching lots with torn up guts and such. They put a hurting on those fish for sure.
many large crappie in this area have healed over deep wounds from them birds , makes me sad to see a big fish with such an ugly scar on it and sometimes it deforms them close to the bone and makes it tough to fillet them ......just saying
Resiliency!
Your favorite birds strike again.:banghead Everybody has to eat but……on a very slightly related note I watched a Cooper hawk in hot pursuit of a songbird yesterday. The SB zigged through some trees and made it to live another day. The hawk didn’t waste energy. It chirped a little (probably saying some bad hawk words) and scanned the horizon.
Bob
watched one hit a beautiful male singing cardinal in a tree top from an tower blind right in my face one morning a few years ago .Quote:
Originally Posted by BobC
the hawk almost hit me in the face as it left with the cardinal pinned with both feet and talons buried in the cardinals chest .
I had no idea how loud a cardinal could SCREAM until that morning ......
let me tell you this , the woods were full of songbirds singing and when that happened the woods fell so silent you could of heard a pin drop from a hundred yards away ....:Rofl
At such times silence is a virtue
I ain’t henpecked. I’ve just got chicken house ways. :biggrin
Our local city park pond is stocked with rainbow trout in the winter. Those freaking comrants (water turkeys) eat like it's a buffet. They get around 60% of those rainbows. It's a sad sight to see.
I quit chasing the trout stocking thing a few years ago due to that , not sure if they follow the anglers or the trucks or what the deal is , but they show up fast in huge numbers and totally DESTROY the program , paint the rocks solid white and stink the places up and makes me furious they are "allowed" to do it ......Quote:
Originally Posted by Grainraiser
and yes the fisheries folks say they get almost ALL the trout in the process ....:mad:
Doesn't seem like it would be allowed
That IS a bad problem, ketch. I don’t think our streams have that problem, but most likely the lake and pond stockings do. All those fish and angler license $ to waste.:banghead
Bob
federal law thing , nothing like protecting huge packs of water coyotes , got to love the ole boomerang right ?Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
I lived in a place where the rattlesnakes had been killed out. They were reintroduced this was mostly a residential area
mankind has no clue for the most part and ruins natural settings more often than not . we skew the balance of nature up good to suit our agenda and then turn around and do something extra silly to try and fix what we created :bangheadQuote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
Likely they had been exterminated due to safety concerns for people and animals
people in general really like to kill snakes , especially rattlesnakes , we have seen a major decline in them in Texas and to be sure it used to be really common to see them .Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
our horned frogs are gone too and our quail and the list goes on and on , we used to have coveys of quail everywhere you stepped back when and horned frogs by the zillions .....saw 2 quail last year , first pair in years and ain't seen a horned frog in 15 or so years .
ornate box turtles used to be all over the place and we see one every other year or 3 now as well .:banghead
makes me sad and mad to think things that Texas was known for have vanished as man encroached on the wildlife with our pollution / pesticides and alien species of wildlife that didn't come from here .:mad: