Hi All,
Many years ago out at Sawhill ponds I saw a Red-winged Blackbird land on a cattail that was too weak to support his weight. As the cattail bent toward the surface of the pond a huge Largemouth Bass came up under it and engulfed the blackbird! Another interesting fish tale was related to me by one of the biologist at the forest service lab in Laramie WY where I used to work. They were conducting electroshocking surveys of the trout in Hog Park Creek below the reservoir of the same name. When they arrived at the spillway there was an adult Common Merganser with 3 young ducklings swimming on the plunge pool below the dam. When they returned from the days work there were only 2 ducklings. They shocked the pool and got up a 27" Brown Trout. When they pumped the stomach they found the 3rd duckling! So far my rubber duck fly imitations have not produced. Steve Larson Northglenn, CO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh and Urling Kingery" <[email protected]> To: "Cobirds" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 1:45:54 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: [cobirds] Cliff Swallows & Squawfish -- Moffat Bob Righter periodically sends us an historical gem; here's one that appeared in the Nov. 23 2009 issue of High Country News, attributed to a 1995 publication, just reissued, by Fred Quartarone, who interviewed 111 old-timers about endangered Colorado River fish, "Historical Accounts of Upper Colorado River Basin Endangered Fish." Web site: ColoradoRiverRecovery.fws.gov "Chuck Mack, of Craig, Colo. tells that, during the early 1950's on the Green River near Lodore Canyon: He watched as baby cliff swallows--eager to leave their nests--flapped their wings hard but often flopped down into the water. 'Every big squawfish in the Green River must have migrated to the canyon to feast on the swallows because we sure caught a lot of them. We managed to land a lot of 10 to 20 pounders (and) everyone that we gutted out had a stomach plumb full of baby swallows!" Hugh Kingery -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
