Hen pecked ?

[Ketchn]

Cormorant hen pecked that is ......
poor thing looked it played goalie for the dart team .....

[DockShootinJack]

Still grabbing a jig when it swims by. Poor critter looks pretty rough

[Ketchn]

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 .

[DockShootinJack]

So much for once bitten twice shy

[Ketchn]

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

[SuperDave336]

Last year around the spawn I was catching lots with torn up guts and such. They put a hurting on those fish for sure.

[Ketchn]

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

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Resiliency!

[BobC]

Your favorite birds strike again. 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

[Ketchn]

Your favorite birds strike again. 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 .
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 ....