2 Great Stops at RR

[2sheds]

[2sheds]

[moguy1973]

1 hour ago, 2sheds said:

A lot bigger than the dinky stockers I caught there last summer when I went for the first time.  Still fun as I could catch one on just about every cast with a mohair leech, and they were coming up top for dries too.

[tjm]

Some of the fish seem to stay in there long enough to grow bigger and take on color,  but the stockings vary in size too, early this past summer it seemed like all the fish were small except in the C&R stretch, recently most fish I've caught in Z2 were good sized. What surprises me is how you got pictures with out crowds of people in them, even Wednesdays when I usually go over have been crowded all summer and fall. I missed this week because of weather, guess others did too. The vultures are getting very  bold and will become problem eventually. I've been thinking the social distance sign should feature a vulture rather than an eagle.

[fisheye]

Are those Black Vultures?  I read that Black Vultures will attack livestock.  New born calves, chickens, lambs.  The BV have been migrated North for the last 20 years.  I think I have seen them in the last 3 years.  

 

[2sheds]

Was wanting some help to ID the birds.  I thought some kind of migrating duck.

[Johnsfolly]

56 minutes ago, 2sheds said:

Was wanting some help to ID the birds.  I thought some kind of migrating duck.

They're black vultures. They migrate through that area.

[tjm]

2 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

They're black vultures. They migrate through that area.

Year round residents now, I believe.  More blacks than turkeys now, they've been increasing  for most of the past twenty years.  Interesting to me; on a dead pile in winter the crows find it first, the turkey vultures run them off then the black vultures run them off and then if we happen to have a flight of bald eagles around they take over, they have a pecking order. 

The black vultures seem to maintain a flock of maybe fifty birds  that stay in and around RRSP, they were constantly on the cleaning station until the Park took it down, they scavenge picnic tables and vacant camps, will come within twenty feet of a angler sometimes and will extract guts and skins from the water where people dress fish.

[dave potts]

Those are some neat pictures.  Looks like you had a great outing.

[fishinwrench]

Below Bagnell dam the black buzzards do damage to vehicles.  Scratching up the hoods, picking at exposed weatherstripping and windshield wipers, ect.    

They can be a terrible nuisance once they loose their fear of people.