I think they’re hungry.
Sep 5, 2020 19:30:26 #
One of five feeders. Need safety glasses in my back yard.
Sep 5, 2020 19:33:39 #
FourchonLa. wrote:
One of five feeders. Need safety glasses in my back yard.
Got the same thing here. It's all in the juice. We do 2 cups sugar to 8 cups water. I think ours are on a sugar fix.
Sep 5, 2020 19:41:33 #
Amazing little creatures. They say that they return to the same area every year along with their offspring. Don’t know how true it is but they keep multiplying. Must be around twenty or twenty five right now. By late September I’m refilling five feeders daily.
Sep 5, 2020 19:43:28 #
Sep 5, 2020 19:45:34 #
Brianfishin wrote:
What are they? Spanish mackerel?
Mexican flying fish.
Sep 5, 2020 19:52:14 #
Brianfishin
Loc: Chesapeake VA
Video finally uploaded. I originally looked at the picture next to your name. Therefore the confusion.
Sep 5, 2020 19:53:55 #
FourchonLa. wrote:
Amazing little creatures. They say that they return to the same area every year along with their offspring. Don’t know how true it is but they keep multiplying. Must be around twenty or twenty five right now. By late September I’m refilling five feeders daily.
Must be true. Last year we had 6 tops and one of them that must of been the leader did not like to share and would constantly chase the others off. We only have two feeders up and this year over 12 of them. Fortunetly only one refill a week on both.
Sep 5, 2020 20:13:39 #
I watched an amazing program on them on PBS a while back. Did you know that they are at their most vulnerable at night? They do not sleep. They go into a state of suspended animation, deeply suspended, they about as near to death as a living thing can be. When they awaken it takes them some minutes to become completely aware or their surroundings and to be able to move at all. They go thru this every day. Amazing. What a perilous journey for them to cross large bodies of water - there's no where for them to stop.
Sep 5, 2020 20:20:42 #
Spiritof27 wrote:
I watched an amazing program on them on PBS a whil... (show quote)
I didn’t know that. Learned something new today. Just as your posts used to have at the bottom. They nest in the azaleas around the house. They are thick and I guess it offers protection. Believe it or not but have had them land on our boat miles offshore to take a rest. They also visit and rest on the offshore oil platforms. My brother in law has many photos of them on the platforms he has worked on.
Sep 5, 2020 20:22:56 #
Brianfishin wrote:
Video finally uploaded. I originally looked at the picture next to your name. Therefore the confusion.
Those are speckled trout in the avatar. Sometimes the video downloads give me trouble too.
Sep 5, 2020 20:32:45 #
Sep 5, 2020 20:47:26 #
Spiritof27 wrote:
No, those are drum. :.)
No. These are drum. Red drum to be exact. :)
Sep 5, 2020 21:38:31 #
Sep 5, 2020 21:48:14 #
Rob March wrote:
Mosquitoes are large there
Yes. Especially the Tiger mosquitoes. They are huge and pack a wallop. Normally from Asia but like every other non native pest they love the south Louisiana climate.
Sep 5, 2020 22:13:50 #
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