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  • Claudia
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2005
    • 1342

    Attacked by Egret at Beach

    Ok, so it I wasn't attacked, just bitten and clawed at a few times. (enough to draw blood) A little further down from where I was in the water I could see a man trying to remove fishing line wrapped around the Egret, so off I go to help. He had the easy job of removing the line..a lot of it. I was trying to hold the bird without hurting it, of course the bird was not aware that I was trying to be kind, so I got pecked on the face, head and arms and then he decided he liked the feel of his bill just being clamped down on my hand. Did you know their claws are sharp? They are. I survived and I am very, very happy to say all of the fishing line was removed and off he went. Now we all know that the group I was with were watching from shore and laughing their butts off. See if I help them when they are wrapped in fishing line
    I'm just enjoying my ride on the trip around the sun.
  • botebum
    Banned
    • Sep 2002
    • 12018

    #2
    Had a similar experience with an osprey while king mackerel fishing from a pier. It took four of us to hold it down while on guy undid the fishing line. Nobody hurt other than a few scatches.

    Doug

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    • paladin
      Senior Senior Member
      • Dec 2000
      • 26476

      #3
      a tub of boiling water, a couple of eggs, flour, milk and fried egret.....ummm...can't say it tastes like chikkin'....never ate one....
      Wakan Tanka Kici Un
      ..a bad day sailing is a heckuva lot better than the best day at work.....
      Fighting Illegal immigration since 1492....
      Live your life so that whenever you lose, you're ahead."
      "If you live life right, death is a joke as far as fear is concerned."

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      • JimD
        Senior Mumbler
        • Feb 2002
        • 29704

        #4
        Originally posted by paladin
        a tub of boiling water, a couple of eggs, flour, milk and fried egret.....ummm...can't say it tastes like chikkin'....never ate one....
        I have a good chicken recipe if you ever want to try one.
        There is no rational, logical, or physical description of how free will could exist. It therefore makes no sense to praise or condemn anyone on the grounds they are a free willed self that made one choice but could have chosen something else. There is no evidence that such a situation is possible in our Universe. Demonstrate otherwise and I will be thrilled.

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        • paladin
          Senior Senior Member
          • Dec 2000
          • 26476

          #5
          Naw...got a Blue Heron about 50 yards from my deck that I have been checking the drumsticks to see how fat it gets snitching the deer corn.....
          Wakan Tanka Kici Un
          ..a bad day sailing is a heckuva lot better than the best day at work.....
          Fighting Illegal immigration since 1492....
          Live your life so that whenever you lose, you're ahead."
          "If you live life right, death is a joke as far as fear is concerned."

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          • crawdaddyjim50
            NeoLiberal (look it up)
            • Sep 2005
            • 1186

            #6
            Claudia, Get a Tetanus shot.
            Liberty and Equal Justice not "Social Justice" FOR ALL.

            “Property is the fruit of labor…property is desirable…is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” Abraham Lincoln

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            • Peter Malcolm Jardine
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2002
              • 18515

              #7
              I need rescuing.
              Wooden boats are like shingles, recurring, and often painful.

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              • Phillip Allen
                new member
                • May 2002
                • 63618

                #8
                we've all known for a long time
                The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
                Personal failures are too important to be trusted to others.

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                • Katherine
                  Too Young to be a Senior
                  • Sep 2004
                  • 13902

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Peter Malcolm Jardine
                  I need rescuing.
                  Yeah, from Julie if she ever starts reading the forum.
                  Pet photography, the degree you get when you fail aromatherapy - Duck D.

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                  • Mrleft8
                    Banned
                    • Feb 2000
                    • 31864

                    #10
                    Yer just lucky it was a HE-gret. If it was a female you'd be looking for the Egress.....

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                    • huisjen
                      innocent widdle bunny
                      • Jun 2001
                      • 8689

                      #11
                      I once helped catch a pelican with fishing line problems on venerial, uh, excuse me, Imperial Beach, near San Diego. The first thing I did was throw my jacket over its head. They quiet down a lot when they can't see. It's like putting the sheet over the canary cage or the hood over the falcon.

                      Dan
                      Master of The Ensign's Gig: a 7 1/2 foot flat bottom plywood skiff,
                      and Prudence: Lightning #7896.

                      Think Good Thoughts.
                      Thoughts become words.
                      Words become actions.
                      Actions become habits.
                      Habits become character.
                      Character becomes destiny.

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                      • Mrleft8
                        Banned
                        • Feb 2000
                        • 31864

                        #12
                        Ever try to put a hood on a Falcon?

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                        • huisjen
                          innocent widdle bunny
                          • Jun 2001
                          • 8689

                          #13
                          Is it any harder than putting a hood on a Mercury Comet of the same vintage?

                          Dan
                          Master of The Ensign's Gig: a 7 1/2 foot flat bottom plywood skiff,
                          and Prudence: Lightning #7896.

                          Think Good Thoughts.
                          Thoughts become words.
                          Words become actions.
                          Actions become habits.
                          Habits become character.
                          Character becomes destiny.

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                          • Mrleft8
                            Banned
                            • Feb 2000
                            • 31864

                            #14
                            Not much..... But the Falcon had funny bolt holes..... Made putting a hood on a real pain. Talk about scratches!

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                            • Phil Heffernan
                              Senior Member
                              • Oct 2005
                              • 1616

                              #15
                              I Saved a bird today

                              That my cat had stalked and forced into my fishpond

                              I'm sitting there meditating, when all of a sudden, a bird flies into the pond, and my cat appears, wondering 'Where did my prey go?'

                              Bird flops and flutters on the surface, then stops moving, preparing to drown, I suppose...

                              I'm there with a net, scoop her up and launch her into a tree...She flies off...

                              Man, that felt good...

                              PH

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