OK fuzzy pics but we have flocks of birds, especially on the Center Lagoon today, due west from Clubhouse. The birds and racoons are not eating the dead fish, but they like the 'drunken' fish that swim near the surface! Anhingas, wood storks, egrets, green herons, tricolors, great blues .. fish are shad.
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Your BLOGMEISTER adds:
I have filed an alert with SFWMD (South Florida Water Management District).
If you share my concerns and those of other residents, please file your own alert.
SFWMD "Contact Us" form is to be found as follows:
http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/levelthree/contact%20us
Dave Israel
More birds, here come the turkey vultures, grackels, seagulls, osprey, ducks.
ReplyDeleteHi Elaine,
ReplyDeleteNovember 25, 2009 10:13 PM,
There appears to be a number of Lesser Crested Grebe, at least two bushu birds and an Articulated Loon.
There is also one Feather footed Ptarmigan and a Ballibunion.
Dave Israel
I noticed an unusual concentration of vultures today. Could they be smelling our Thanksgiving lunch? I hate to think the alternative.
ReplyDeleteThe vultures are here by the hundreds and mainly around the Somerset and Berkshire lagoons where work is underway to restore the lakeshore. Thousands of dead fish are floating around and I suspect that they will prefer that to our Thanksgiving Diner.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt that a chemical or other poisonous stuff is creating this carnage and Roger Carver should test the water again.
Dead fish floating downstream to the Wellington lagoons, we are starting to have the Vult... Visitors also. Andre
Hi All,
ReplyDeleteCan someone report if the birds are eating the dead fish?
Thanks,
Dave Israel
i have'nt seen them eating anything so far but while some go in the water to do whatever the others are standing near the water or flying over. Andre
ReplyDeleteDavid, at 10.00 a.m., this morning the vultures are still flocking by the hundreds near the lakeshore restoration boat at Somerset island. Hundreds more are flying over that same general area. In looking at the water from my building ( Wellington H ) next to the entrance canal to the Wellington lagoon we can see a dramatic change in the color of the water. Water coming in from Berkshire is deep green for about 75 feet from the bridge while the rest of the water is of a much normal color. Did UCO or someonelse called for some water sampling? These birds are not crazy, if they are here it is because something is rooten in our environment. Andre
ReplyDeleteP.S. The egrets and other species that I used to see each day on our lakeshore are not here today. They can smell problems for themselves I guess. Human cannot do the same thing so some environment agencies could do air sampling for us maybe also. Andre
Hi All,
ReplyDeleteI have sent an alert to SFWMD; as clearly we have an issue.
Please add your voice to mine if you are concerned, the SFWMD "Contact Us" form is to be found as follows:
http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/levelthree/contact%20us
Dave Israel
Thanks David, I will file a claim with SFWMD also. I have noticed that the first dead fish you can see are along the A canal behind the Dorchester pool. Furthermore, something was sprayed along the bank of that canal as well as on the banks of the entrance to Lake Century. Since the current of the water runs down from that area, it would seem impossible that the problem was created by the Lakeshoree restoration work which has not gone close to that area at least last week to my knowledge.
ReplyDeleteOr is it possible that fish were poisoned in the big lakes and swam to that canal before dying? Who knows what fishes do under water ???? Andre
CVBlogger needs a hide, or should disguise self as hibiscus bush and wait at dawn on Somerset point. By 9am birds are just hanging out saying 'i'm stuffed'.
ReplyDeleteWho monitors our waterways? WPRF has a company killing algae and adjusting fountains - how knowledgeable are they?
Why has there been no waterweed growing in our brown soup (in the 10 yrs I have been here). Cypress Lakes has underwater forests of healthy common water weed.
Big lakes have Florida Lakewatch http://lakewatch.ifas.ufl.edu/index.htm
We have been inundated with Turkey
ReplyDeleteHawks/Vultures as well, who seem
to be competing with the seagulls
for airspace...they all seem to be
avoiding the water, which appears
to be darker in color ( Lake Chatham)Very few ducks are visible
as well.. HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!
I have received 2 auto-reply e-mail messages from SFWMD. Both stated that the persons were off until Monday. I have telephone numbers on these so I will try to call them Monday morning.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile on this ''cold'' and sunny Saturday morning the situation is about the same as yesterday with a difference in the taste of the dead fish due to cold weather. I hope the Vultures go away to a better restaurant. Andre