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[grizwilson]

2 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

But the place is loaded with waterfowl all year.  Eagles only show up when it gets real cold and some years they don't show up at all. 

White Headed Buzzards go where the living is easy, prefer to have a osprey do the hard work then steal the spoils.

[BilletHead]

4 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

But the place is loaded with waterfowl all year.  Eagles only show up when it gets real cold and some years they don't show up at all. 

        True that but some eagles are migratory and some stay here year around. The follow the food source. They will target healthy birds and I have seen that but much easier pickings of the sick and weak. Good Biologists  know such things . I am just an non educated armchair biologist who needs to see to believe. Where are the mysterious northern strain of threadfin shad? Still looking.

 

2 minutes ago, grizwilson said:

White Headed Buzzards go where the living is easy, prefer to have a osprey do the hard work then steal the spoils.

       See here another armchair biologist ,

  BilletHead  

[snagged in outlet 3]

I'm not even sure if the lake has shad.  I just always assumed they were here for a fish kill.  Greese have left the lake and went to fields around here.  It's all ducks on the water for the past week or so. 

[fishinwrench]

32 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

....they are a carrier of leprosy.

Any critter can be a "carrier of leprocy", so what makes armadillos any more likely to be, Mr. Armchair Biologist ?

[BilletHead]

8 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Any critter can be a "carrier of leprocy", so what makes armadillos any more likely to be, Mr. Armchair Biologist ?

      Real biologists and real scientists have proven this. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-armadillos-can-spread-leprosy-180954440/

https://www.livescience.com/52792-armadillos-leprosy-bacteria-spreading-southern-us.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/health/28leprosy.html

     Does this help?  When I need to dispose of one I do so with gloved hands.  

BilletHead

[Flysmallie]

16 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Any critter can be a "carrier of leprocy", so what makes armadillos any more likely to be, Mr. Armchair Biologist ?

 

Other than humans, nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) are the only highly endemic natural hosts of Mycobacterium leprae

https://www.lepra.org.uk/platforms/lepra/files/lr/sept05/lep198-208.pdf

 

Of course this is coming from biologists so...........................

[Chief Grey Bear]

27 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Mr. Armchair Biologist ?

Now that there is funny. 

Extremely ironic, but funny. 

[BilletHead]

28 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

Now that there is funny. 

Extremely ironic, but funny. 

 Kind of is but I have a thirst for knowledge. When armadillos first arrived in my area I wanted to learn more. So how do we learn? Seek knowledge  in reputable sources. Then there is seeing is believing when outdoors. I for one have seen amazing things. 

 BilletHead

[Flysmallie]

7 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

When armadillos first arrived in my area I wanted to learn more.

They are interesting creatures. I grew up around them so they were never any different than any other animal. Seems like when I was a kid they were always getting in the garden. I think my dad was racing them because when mom would mention there was one in the garden you'd hear what sounded like a starting pistol going off.

I wouldn't eat one of those greasy bastards though. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 minute ago, Flysmallie said:

I wouldn't eat one of those greasy bastards though. 

Kinda like peas I guess