Derek: This past summer I spotted an injured Kormorant(sp).I was paddling solo in the Toronto harbour. Every time I got close, it dove. It was unable to fly, but it was able to cover significant distance under water. What technique would you use to capture THIS critter by Kayak? I never caught a mallard last year that could swim underwater like no duck I have ever seen. She had a broken wing, don't know what became of her. This was in the Chicago River where there are too many places to hide (boats, docks, piers). On the upper stretch of the Chicago River there is a cormorant with a broken wing who has been there for three years now. He can dive well and manages to follow the open water during freeze-up. Right now we are experiencing the coldest weather in ten years, so it may finish him off if he doesn't make it to one of the wastewater treatment plant outlets. Other than wearing them out, I haven't come up with a way to get injured waterfowl in a boat. We always try luring the birds to shore with bread and stuff, but only the domestics and muscovies are dumb enough to fall for it. I easily caught a surf scoter last winter, but she had ingested lead shot and died the day she was caught. Healthy but injured water birds are a lot of work to catch, when it can be done at all. Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Feb 02 2007 - 05:45:50 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:22 PDT