Sarcastic Fringehead!

[Lou]

I just like saying the name of this beast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRV961d0TP4

Lou

[dale]

I just like saying the name of this beast. Lou

I like pretty much everything about him!  great video, lou!!

One tough customer.

[Donna]

Should be "Hinge" head. That was cool Lou.

[Carol P.]

Quite an impressive fish!  He'd feel right at home on the Sci-Fi network.   

[Annette]

A very interesting video. 

[anneintoronto]

What a great fish!  I love the last quarter with the territorial display and attack!  That fish could deliver quite a hickey!   

[Carol P.]

Speaking of fish.  Brian and I saw a mink fishing on the river next to the Broad St. Bridge yesterday.  Imagine our surprise when he pulled an approx. 2 lb, small mouth bass up onto the rocks and dispatched it.  He/she then dragged it into what looks like a small den made of big bundles of sticks.  Very cool!

[valhalla]

Speaking of fish.  Brian and I saw a mink fishing on the river next to the Broad St. Bridge yesterday.  Imagine our surprise when he pulled an approx. 2 lb, small mouth bass up onto the rocks and dispatched it.  He/she then dragged it into what looks like a small den made of big bundles of sticks.  Very cool!

That is VERY cool on several points:  The Mink - most people wouldn't recognize one of those varments in the summer; that was a good-sized fish!

[Bobbie Ireland]

Speaking of fish.  Brian and I saw a mink fishing on the river next to the Broad St. Bridge yesterday.  Imagine our surprise when he pulled an approx. 2 lb, small mouth bass up onto the rocks and dispatched it.  He/she then dragged it into what looks like a small den made of big bundles of sticks.  Very cool!

That is VERY cool on several points:  The Mink - most people wouldn't recognize one of those varments in the summer; that was a good-sized fish!

Just wondering what the attitude there is re mink. I see them at times down at a wonderful riverside garden, just below us in the village. They are NOT welcome, I can tell you. I am convinced that they are the reason that some birds like Irish Dippers do not bring their fledges along further. I am not sure about the capture status, tho - something I should really look into! And then there are the Grey Squirrels... Our poor little native Reds don't have a chance.

[KapiVT]

That is VERY cool on several points:  The Mink - most people wouldn't recognize one of those varments in the summer; that was a good-sized fish!
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I wouldn't recognize one at any time of year!
Kapi in VT

[Carol P.]

I have to admit that Brian was the one to ID the mink.  I wouldn't have had a clue.  Although I did get a picture minus the head, due to the mink's head and fish were under a log.  

Brian told me that they are currently protected.  I really don't know that much about them.  I'll have to do some research.

[Carol P.]

That is VERY cool on several points:  The Mink - most people wouldn't recognize one of those varments in the summer; that was a good-sized fish!

Yeah, the man fishing from the bridge was very envious!

[Bobbie Ireland]

I have to admit that Brian was the one to ID the mink.  I wouldn't have had a clue.  Although I did get a picture minus the head, due to the mink's head and fish were under a log.  

Brian told me that they are currently protected.  I really don't know that much about them.  I'll have to do some research.

I will be v. interested to hear re minks being protected. They are obviously "native" to some part of the world... but what with the poor critters being kept for the fur trade, who knows where they belong. When they get into rivers etc. which are not their true homes, they simply create havoc. Let that be a lesson to us...

[Patti from Kentucky]

I will be v. interested to hear re minks being protected. They are obviously "native" to some part of the world... but what with the poor critters being kept for the fur trade, who knows where they belong. When they get into rivers etc. which are not their true homes, they simply create havoc. Let that be a lesson to us...

The American mink is native to North America (I don't know about South America), but I think there is also a European mink.  There are lots of members of the same family (mustelid, I think) native to North America: short-tailed weasels - a.k.a ermine, long-tailed weasels, fishers, pine martens, badgers, otters, wolverines, black-footed ferret etc...I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.  They're rare enough that I always get excited to see any members of that family, though it is hard to warm up to a voracious carnivore that you know is preying on the other cute critters we like to watch.

[Lou]

Hey! Whole stole my topic? This is the Sarcastic Fringehead topic, not the freakin' Mink discussion topic. For crying out loud, go get yer own topic! We're talking more 'mink' than 'sarcastic fringehead' here because of you. C'mon - who did it? Fess up.

Lou