Posted on 03/13/2011 10:22:09 PM PDT by 444Flyer
The shores of Acapulco's beaches were this weekend teeming with masses of fish packed so tightly they looked like an oil slick from above.
Thousands of sardines, anchovies, stripped bass and mackerel surged along the coast of the Mexican resort in an event believed to be linked to the devastating Japanese tsunami.
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They had that big kill at Redondo Beach last week...
Spooky
I almost got a crow to land on my arm today at work. Do it with chickadees all the time, never a crow.
Anything other than humans that rely on the magnetic field orientation of the planet are are in disarray, for a bit. An inevitable order will restore.
Must be Global Warming...
Now send me a Grant. A big one.
Oh my goodness, the striped bass are skinny dipping!
stripped bass
Oh my goodness, the striped bass are skinny dipping!
Worse yet! they are committing the sin of gluttony!
Ask those bait fish. They know it when they encounter it.
The capacity of the individual to put such information into proper perspective is spooky. Many misinterpret the message.
This is nothing new, just new to us.
Yellowtail-—Yum!
It would be a little weird swimming in a tightly packed school of fish. I see the fishermen took advantage of the situation. That was my first thought. Harvest!
They were probably screened by TSA.
Sardines travel like that ordinarily.
I can get within about 4 ft. of the chickadees on my feeders, but no closer. How do you get them on your arm?
As long as it wasn't squid, baccarudas or sharks, I'd be wading in & grabbin'm, stabbin'm, jiggin'm, dippin'm, or scoopin'm with whatever came to hand, including bare hands.
Can't ever have too much fresh fish...though there have been times, usually around the 50th or 60th perch that needed cleaning & scaling, that I sort of wished I had been a little less blessed that day.
When I was in grammar school at Shasta Lake, we had a freezer full of bluegill, bass, and trout I caught. Ate it a couple times a week all fall, winter & spring, until we were sick of it. Then the next summer, I would start over again.
Fished nearly every day all summer, then deer hunted in the fall. Now, you can't do it, since they turned it into a "recreation area"...meaning no recreation without paying franchise operators.
Can't fish or swim in any of the places we all routinely did back then. A now-granny I went to school with was aressted for "trespassing" a couple of years ago for taking her grand kids to one of the old remote swimming holes on public land.
The rules on public lands are getting ridiculous. Too many roads and trails being closed all over the west. I don't know about the east.
Very True!
Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
Do not swallow (strange, I know). Cats salivate when they are going to eat a bird, and the chicks know this.
This works, and once they get to know you, they will come to you without the seed. I had a girlfriend who used to get swarmed whenever she wore her pink coat. A truely fabulous thing to realize that the small birds know who you are.
Google this, there are books written on the topic of attracting birds.
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