Feral Fish Finds

[ljse]

Speaking of koi, the pond in front of our school has a huge orange koi in it. The other fish are just some kind of plain gray large ones so I guess someone wanted to get rid of their fish. People also say that someone threw a turtle in there.

 

[Lobo.]

dont know about fish, but here we have bush honeysuckle, it drives me nuts, although i don't think anyone else notices it.. its almost impossible to get rid of once its established!!!

recently fireants have jumped north to nashville, and are spreding from their origen point, southern shrubery that was planted around a new mall... there is no way that the planters did not notice the ants, but noone cares, so long as they are payed!

starlings are everywhere...

asian beatles are killing all the pines around here... and i really wish that i could go back in time and see the white summer that chestnut trees used to cause before the chestnut blight... in the eastern united states, these trees were sometimes as common as 1 out of every 4 trees! now there are only a handfull left!...

then there is kudzu... and a bunch more stuff!

and yea, amazonian snakes are invadeing the everglades, althogh they really just replace the role that the aligator playes, i dont think they will do much damage... but still, its another example on how things change!

the european starling was introduced when a shakespere club decided that they were going to bring all animals listed in shakespere to the new world, there was one passage that mentioned starlings, and they purpoisely brought a male and a female over, cherring as they made a nest in the corthouse eves... it makes me sick!!!

 

[plainzwalker]

I remember in the mid 90's some fisherman caught a pirahna in one of the rivers in San Diego. I can't remember which one but I want to say it was the sweetwater.

I also remember once at a park I was visiting some people at an SCA event they found a medium sized ball python sun bathing in the bushes. Also in the serpent area I've personally removed two California King Snakes from my front yard that animal control has no idea how they got there.

 

[thebluejackal]

Horses in many forms once existed in the US before the Spanish brought theirs over, but they died out early for whatever reason.

Aside from that . . .

Grackles and starlings. My. God. They're . . . everywhere. /Shatner

 

[tricksterpup]

I'm surprised that they are still alive with the weather around here. This is the first time I have heard about this.

The reason I got from the article is due to their nesting practices. They build this huge nest and stay there all year. Many birds share the same nest and all these birds keep that nest warm during the winter. Check out the article its a good read.

 

[Lobo.]

Grackles and starlings. My. God. They're . . . everywhere. /Shatner

man.. i new about starlings... but i didnt know about grackles... what other common animals are really feral... what common fish are really feral>???

 

[NDferro]

i lived agross from greenlake for many years theres no Alligators in green lake

Lots of Feral animals abound.. Horses are a good example.. they never existed in the U.S. until the spanish brought them.. still some wild herds about.

Various forms of Rodents that never existed here just about take over places and they often have "bounties" put upon them..

A lake called Sunset Lake here in Washington state up near Mount Raineer is absolutely full of Giant Koi.. there is now a kids summer camp based on the lake.. but in a canoe the water just swarms with orange and whites. The lake is big enough they water ski in it.. so you can get a concept of how many goldfish are there...

Greenlake here in Seattle up until Last year I believe they got the last of the Alligators that were eating all the ducks.

... Just common not to release to the wild.. but so many do without considering the consequences to the natural Eco-system to the native residents...

The most Feral animal of all? ... They're everywhere... Human beings... Enough Said.

 

[Dangerdoll]

Thanks Dangerdoll, I hadn't searched for a link. Have you ever seen them?

I've never seen them myself but sometimes when my Lory is acting up, I think of going out to Fort Lee to investigate

 

[mogurnda]

man.. i new about starlings... but i didnt know about grackles... what other common animals are really feral... what common fish are really feral>???

Grackles are natives.

Shatner, however, is an introduced pest from up north

 

[Lobo.]

phew... i was begining to suspect everything! :idea2:

thaks for clearing that up for me mo!