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[fishinglady]

I'm not so worried about the regular posters to corpusfishing doing in the swans. BUT this site gets a lot of browsers, and we do live in a place where Yeti coolers [worth much less] are regularly stolen from the back of pickup trucks and people's cars and trucks are broken into while they are out on the water fishing.

[topdog15]

[ironmanstan]

[Johninaustin]

Want to see more? Come up to Austin, homeowners here buy them and release them on the lake all the time. Until a bass boat runs them over of course. They rarely last the summer. The white swans seem to have a higher survival rate. Better visibility I suppose.

They are loose livestock, as said already, escaped from someone's pond.

Do you get all Wild Kingdom inside when you see a loose goat by the roadside?


BTW: Don't bother shooting them, they taste like muck and have very little usable meat.

[Central Scrutinizer]

[Romann]

Well, this sighting coud have serious implications per Wikipedia

What we call here a Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with the following three attributes.

First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme 'impact'. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.

I stop and summarize the triplet: rarity, extreme 'impact', and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability. A small number of Black Swans explains almost everything in our world, from the success of ideas and religions, to the dynamics of historical events, to elements of our own personal lives.

The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.

The disproportionate role of high-profile, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance, and technology.
The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities).
The psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to uncertainty and unaware of the massive role of the rare event in historical affairs.
Unlike the earlier philosophical "black swan problem", the "black swan theory" refers only to unexpected events of large magnitude and consequence and their dominant role in history. Such events, considered extreme outliers, collectively play vastly larger roles than regular occurrences.
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Don't let them take the Flour out of the Bluff!

[Tyler]

Deep!
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[mansfieldjetties]

Man anyone just reading this post would think the fishing is slow... 😳
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"Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught."

[Cricket]

I'm told that they taste just like Bald Eagle. :)

[Jetty Bandit]

[ironmanstan]

Roy you should run for a political office because over half of us read that and didn't get it. A perfect example of a good politician. I would vote for you. We will have to discuss that over some fried fish and libations sometime .
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I LIKE MINE FRIED.

[hickroots07]

[rodandroll]

[rodandroll]

Gotta admit. Those dumb-supple bum swans definitely picked the wrong place to to squat.
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Now that food has replaced my sex life I can't even get into my own pants!!!!!!!!

Even duct tape can't fix stupid ... but it can muffle the sound!!!

[Blast-n-Cast]

Pretty sure I can solve the mystery. They more than likely came from my parents pond here in the Bluff. They bought a breeding pair several years ago that had offspring a few times since. Each year a few go on hiatus for a couple weeks and then return to the pond. You can see (2) of the birds in question in the background of this I took a few months back.