Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Can you spot it?

I have wondered if nature has given bird species that prey on fish the natural instinct to "seed" BOW's that are devoid of fish with fingerling fish. The bird tries to fish a BOW but never sees any fish. So the next fly by they stop and puke up some fish to get the BOW started growing fish??????????

Don't know, just speculating. There just seem to be too many unanswered questions of how BOW's have fish that were never stocked and not near enough for fish to swim in from other BOW's.

Nature provides a number of unusual habits of animals that seem unnatural or things we would never have imagined the animal doing. Part of their survival and reproductive instinct.

I saw a Green Heron come close to picking up a fish in one BOW and transferring it to another. Not quite, but close. Had he started his flight a little ways further down the bank the fish would have ended up in a different pond when he dropped it.

I had an owl drop a rabbit on the hood of my truck. Not every behavior offers an evolutionary advantage. Some are just random events.

True. But even random events can effect evolution.

Since fry/fish can swim for miles in even moderate rain events, swimming up considerably high flowing BOW outlets, spillways and waterfalls and have been documented doing so, and since not once has a bird stocking ever been documented, I'll go with fish swimming in. I will also accept the slim odds on birds dropping a male and female fish species in a BOW is possible.......barely.

Eggs being deposited by birds or animals, and remaining viable, an extremely miniscule possibility.

I might buy into the regurgitated minnow stocking, so long as the distance between the waters was very limited. I stop short of calling such a scenario anything but remotely accidental however.

I bet you guys have trouble accepting UFO's and alien abductions too.

Totally believe in UFO's, alien abductions, bigfoot.....more evidence for those than there is for fish eggs sticking to a bird's legs!

I heard they taste like chicken but the drumsticks are sparse on meat. They actually weigh very little. Our border collie accidentally ran into one head on one day and killed it while chasing our car down the lane. I was surprised how light it was. I couldn't even feel its stomach. It was like a hollow tube from its throat to its rear end. They must digest fish as fast as they eat them.

Preach Brother T!

Our dog got one too one day. There really is nothing to these things. The big ones take to long to get off the ground and the dog is alot quicker.

I have personally watched a belted kingfisher move minnows to a smaller body of water to teach her young how to fish.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9dJecJvGto

Listen to the last thing the GBH knows about your pond that you don't.

I've noticed when scared they always give a big squirt of manure as they take off to lighten the load.

"Approximately 48% of Yellowstone’s waters were once fishless"

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/fish_management_history.htm

Birds could not apparently stock these waters even over tens of thousands of years...

and another

"The absence of fish from eastern lakes is related to the lack of a stream within 50 m of the lake."

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01949.x/abstract

Will, a Bald Eagle showed up at the pond yesterday. last time he or another was there was back in January through March. He was soring over the pond and then set in an old dead oak tree overlooking the pond. I have mixed feelings about it. Glad to see it but I don't like the idea of it feeding on the lmb or the hsb. I will try to get a picture of him gliding over the pond.

Tracy

That reminded me of a story.

A few years ago the game warden came across a guy who had two northern loons he had shot. The guy pleaded to the warden that he and his family were hungry and they were to be eaten. The warden then let the guy go but in passing he asked "out of curiosity what dose Loon taste like?" The guy says alot like bald eagle.



Just kidding funny joke though.