Today's Wildlife Encounter

[wharfeego]

Is he throwing them back ?

Of course he's throwin' 'em back...somet's got to control the human population.

[IanDarkpeak]

At todays Passing Cloud there was a Buzzard above Dains Mill after upper Hulme

[mr brightside]

Is he throwing them back ? :w00t:

I don't know. The problem on the Kali with the Goonch Catfish was that they were growing massive from eating the remains of bankside cremations, massive enough to take people alive. The one in the picture is too small to completely consume an adult person, they mocked up a graphic based on estimations of how big one would need to be to take a whole person and leave no trace and it was frightening. Catfish will just grow and grow if the food's there, this is the biggest one they found...

[wharfeego]

Oreet it ain't a "Monster From The Deep" but it sure is a fantastic wildlife spectacle on my doorstep...Atlantic Salmon leaping Stainforth Foss on the River Ribble...today!

[Rob Furness]

That's excellent Wharfee, cracking picture. A couple of years back we spent ages at the strid watching what looked like brown trout jumping up the white water there. It was great to see

[Derby Tup]

Fabulous image that wharfee. That fish looks like it's been in the river some time

[wharfeego]

...That fish looks like it's been in the river some time

I don't know much about the salmon that run up our rivers. I do know that when they leave the sea and head into fresh water they are bars of silver. After some time they start to darken but I don't know how long that process takes. The skin darkening might be to help the fish blend-in with their new environment or perhaps it's because they stop feeding once they've left the sea? The fish in the picture has similar markings to Brown Trout.

[Derby Tup]

I don't know much about the salmon that run up our rivers. I do know that when they leave the sea and head into fresh water they are bars of silver. After some time they start to darken but I don't know how long that process takes. The skin darkening might be to help the fish blend-in with their new environment or perhaps it's because they stop feeding once they've left the sea? The fish in the picture has similar markings to Brown Trout.

I'm not too up on salmon either but used to do a lot of fly-fishing for trout and grayling. Grayling are wonderful fish. You're right about the colour and cock fish in particular develop a big kype-jaw after spending time in the river. A freshly run fish can have sea-lice on it but these fall off after a while

[Derby Tup]

http://www.letsflyfish.com/salmon_kelt.htm

Some info here wharfee

[wharfeego]

http://www.letsflyfish.com/salmon_kelt.htm...

Good link that DT...learnt some new stuff there. Thanks.

Here's one I took today...



there weren't so many fish leapin' today due, I think, to the high water level. The light was poor so I decided to take a photo of the spectators. There's a fish in there too!