05-17-2009, 06:08 PM
Meadow Creek Pond has become one of the new feeding grounds for Corrmorants.
These fish eating birds are showing up in numbers of over 40 a day.
Corromrants can and do eat up to 6 fish each, every day.
They are Federally protected so it's a very difficult task to try to keep them out of the pond.
The fish in the pond are running scared from the birds and don't ever get a chance to settle down and cruse the pond like normal.
Corrmorants are migratory birds and normally leave our area by the middle to end of June.
The DWR and Roy City have been trying to do some things to get the birds to leave, but they are very persistent.
Fall trout fishing has been much better than Spring fishing at the pond and I suspect it will stay that way as long as the birds keep showing up in the Spring.
These birds are also showing up at several other Community Ponds, like Jensen and Farmington Ponds.
I don't know if there will ever be a legal way to rid the ponds of these birds.
Like the saying goes,
"Build it and they will come."
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These fish eating birds are showing up in numbers of over 40 a day.
Corromrants can and do eat up to 6 fish each, every day.
They are Federally protected so it's a very difficult task to try to keep them out of the pond.
The fish in the pond are running scared from the birds and don't ever get a chance to settle down and cruse the pond like normal.
Corrmorants are migratory birds and normally leave our area by the middle to end of June.
The DWR and Roy City have been trying to do some things to get the birds to leave, but they are very persistent.
Fall trout fishing has been much better than Spring fishing at the pond and I suspect it will stay that way as long as the birds keep showing up in the Spring.
These birds are also showing up at several other Community Ponds, like Jensen and Farmington Ponds.
I don't know if there will ever be a legal way to rid the ponds of these birds.
Like the saying goes,
"Build it and they will come."
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