Date: 12/23/24 5:49 pm From: HAL MICHAEL via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] dock drama
Although they often "appear" dumb, I have found coots to be really quick learners. Back when I was much younger, I hunted them some. They were, generally, difficult to get to flush. They would hold in cattails and sedge as tightly as a rooster pheasant
Hal Michael
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> On 12/23/2024 4:13 PM PST Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote:
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> Alan, I’m glad to hear that coots actually have a brain in those little heads! I once saw an eagle fly over a big (>100) spread-out flock of coots on Lake Washington and had them all amazingly rapidly assemble into a single long line. Not sure what the strategy was there, but it was obvious and interesting.
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> > On Dec 23, 2024, at 1:28 PM, pan via Tweeters <tweeters...> mailto:<tweeters...> wrote:
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> > I, too, have seen eagles hunting coots and other diving birds on Lake Washington. A few times, though, I've seen the prey outfox the eagles at Magnuson Park. When an eagle was working a coot flock, the coots would move under the swim/dive dock on short supports off shore, and mill in the middle until the eagle gave up and danger passed.
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