Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Sunday, November 14. 2010

Identify that fish

No, it is not a Flying Fish.


 


 

Posted by Bird Dog at 05:05 | Comments (22) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

I'm not much good with freshwater fish, but would that be a carp?
#1 wolfwalker on 2010-11-14 06:40 (Reply)
That's a sucker of some sort, isn't it?
#2 SCOTTtheBADGER on 2010-11-14 06:42 (Reply)
That's a Japanese hawk that's putting up the traditional koinobori for Boy's Day.
#3 BlogDog (Link) on 2010-11-14 07:12 (Reply)
Sure looks like as carp to me.
#4 elTaoseno (Link) on 2010-11-14 07:41 (Reply)
It's got a carp-look to it. And check out the look on it's face!
#5 rg on 2010-11-14 07:46 (Reply)
Dinner fish!
#6 randy on 2010-11-14 07:54 (Reply)
Redfish, otherwise known as a red drum.
#7 arcs on 2010-11-14 07:59 (Reply)
Gasper Goo, i think is what the sout loozyana cajun call 'em --but i could be wrong --
#8 buddy larsen on 2010-11-14 08:23 (Reply)
Cyprinus carpio or common carp. You can tell by the forked tail fin, rounded gill cover, yellow coloring on the belly of the fish towards the tail fin, evenly spaced large scales outlined in black, large anal fin and small small dorsal fin, mid-body pelvic fin and forward pectoral fin are all markers for common carp.

Aren't you glad you asked?

Oh and for the first time EVER, I can identify the bird - Pandion haliaetus or common Osprey.
#9 Tom Francis on 2010-11-14 09:55 (Reply)
Looks like a former democrat congressman. Note the shock/awe/surprise, and the interrrupted sucking motions.
#10 Cato the Elder on 2010-11-14 10:38 (Reply)
+1!

Indeed!
#10.1 Phil in Englewood on 2010-11-14 11:17 (Reply)
Hard to say. I kinda think I can see whiskers, which would make it a carp. Otherwise it's some type of sucker.
#11 Tom L on 2010-11-14 11:33 (Reply)
Pelosi on her last trip to SFO (carping all the way)
#12 Neil (Link) on 2010-11-14 12:13 (Reply)
Close, but can't be. Pelosi has a much bigger mouth than that.
#12.1 fiftyville on 2010-11-14 14:36 (Reply)
Carp, I think. Otherwise known as a full-grown Goldfish.
#13 Bird Dog on 2010-11-14 15:14 (Reply)
from the moment I opened to 'Maggies' I KNEW I WAS HOME!!!

And........I even 'guessed' this is a carp.

Thanks for your fun articles, Birddog!

C.L. Thorpe
#13.1 Cynthia Lauren Thorpe on 2010-11-19 21:33 (Reply)
I love this picture. Not only is it a fascinating portrayal of predator/predatee behavior, the expressions on both faces are wonderful ... stark horror on the fish's face, determined anticipation on the hawk's. I propose it as the official picture of John Boehner assuming the job of Speaker of the House, and Pelosi gasping "Won't go, won't go! No-no-no!"

Marianne

P.S. I suspect that there is no official word 'predatee.' But there ought to be.
#14 Marianne Matthews on 2010-11-14 15:51 (Reply)
Neologisms are perfectly acceptable in English, even without explanation, when they are obvious in their meaning, having been constructed from existing elements.

You might choose "prey."
#14.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-11-14 22:56 (Reply)
That there's a bottom-dwelling scum-sucking politician in the grip of the Tea Party.
#15 Jim on 2010-11-14 18:40 (Reply)
The last thing I would have expected would be for our genteel readers to politicize a natural history pic.

Ya never know...
#16 Bird Dog on 2010-11-14 19:33 (Reply)
A Gasper Goo, i'm tellin' ya --a Bayou Gasper Goo. you catch 'em in the brackish water. they eat good, as they say down thataway.
#17 buddy larsen on 2010-11-15 03:53 (Reply)
Upon first glance I thought it was a rubber nosed trout. but its a carp.
#18 Arthur on 2010-11-15 08:43 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.