Comments on: Spring Is Springing http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/03/03/spring-is-springing/ FrontBurner® has been called the best blog in Dallas (repeatedly), a snarky celebration of ignorance, and a daily conversation about Dallas among the editors of D Magazine. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:09:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim W. http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/03/03/spring-is-springing/comment-page-1/#comment-19742 Tim W. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:26:52 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/03/03/spring-is-springing/#comment-19742 I saw a nice assortment of ducks while fishing White Rock yesterday. Very pretty drake Wood Duck back in a little stream and a couple of different grebes. On the northeast side of the lake, have you noticed the big shoreline trees that have been turned completely white by cormorants sitting in the tree tops and crapping on them? It's ghostly ... and ghastly. Those are the most disgusting birds on the planet, and they're inexplicably federally protected. Fishermen hate them because they can and do eat their bodyweight in fish (8 lbs. give or take) in a day or two. And, they can easily swallow fish of a pound and a half. They're the $30K Millionaires of the bird kingdom... I saw a nice assortment of ducks while fishing White Rock yesterday. Very pretty drake Wood Duck back in a little stream and a couple of different grebes.

On the northeast side of the lake, have you noticed the big shoreline trees that have been turned completely white by cormorants sitting in the tree tops and crapping on them? It’s ghostly … and ghastly. Those are the most disgusting birds on the planet, and they’re inexplicably federally protected. Fishermen hate them because they can and do eat their bodyweight in fish (8 lbs. give or take) in a day or two. And, they can easily swallow fish of a pound and a half. They’re the $30K Millionaires of the bird kingdom…

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