[Sca-cooks] Mute Swan

[Chass Brown]

Nay thats the walking catfish... they will colonize and take over a fresh 
water system. Here in Oklahoma the major problem implant creature is the 
stupid bird known as the Starling.. they were brought in from Africa to help 
with mosquito problems.. problem is they will run off and kill off your 
other birds... raid their nests and are a bigger pain to nut trees/plants 
than the blue jay. We have competitions here on who can kill the most of 
them when out and about in the woods. The problem with them here is so bad 
when they take wing the sky goes dark.

Chass of Rundel of Ansteorra aka of the SCA aka
Charinthalis Del Sans of the portable Chariot
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at jeffnet.org>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mute Swan


> At 12:45 PM 11/6/2004, you wrote:
>>Wa written:> >
>> > >
>> > I haven't heard anything about it...and I live in Maryland...but with
>> > all the other wildlife "stuff" going on here, one never knows...bears,
>> > coyotes, foxes...and, of course, the all-time winner, that fish from
>> > China (can't remember its name) that's threatening our local aquatic 
>> > life!
>> >
>>Northern snakehead IIRC is the name you are looking for.
>
> Is that the one they've called 'Frankenfish', that can actually get out of 
> the water and _walk_ aways to the next stream/lake/pond? They're pretty 
> ugly. And they'll eat about anything.
>
> We have trouble with invasive plants here, but I can't think of any beasts 
> that are a problem, unless you count that rat-like water-dwelling mammal 
> near Corvallis... (Am I gonna catch it for that one! ;-)
>
> 'Lainie