I think we need to calm down with calling this a disease dead zone. Why are the swans not dying. The first video was days after duck season and you can see the number of dead ducks. Now duck season is close and goose season is still open funny all the birds that are dying are geese. Hunters come from miles away to hunt here. The last three months it as bin WW 3 out there. Yes, goose hunting is closed out there,But everybody rides the line around it. I am a avid outdoorsman and hunted it the past 3 months and seen nothing like this. I've been out checking water around this place for ice fishing and I have Encountered no other dead geese or brids. If it's contagious how come the eagles and swans aren't dying. There is a lot of birds just to say it's the wounded ones, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it's an outbreak.
I respectfully disagree with your assessment that this is not a disease and not happening outside of Sweet Marsh. As today's video shows (uploaded after your comments) we now have a dying trumpeter swan. An early video showed a canvasback gasping for air. Yesterday was more than 3-dozen Canada geese dead with more dying on the ice. I have received numerous calls about sick birds in backyards, in front of businesses, and brought home by dogs. Even the DNR reached out locally to state there is an outbreak. I have monitored Sweet Marsh for many decades. This is unlike anything we have experienced. Even two or three years ago, when a turkey production facility in the county had to euthanize tens of thousands of birds due to avian influenza, the impact was not seen like the situation is currently.
@@king3wheeler1 with all due respect, you don't seem to want to see the reality of the situation. I've been an avid waterfowl hunter all my life and I've never seen anything like this due to hunters wounding birds. You'll see an occasional cripple but never dozens in one area at the same time. I don't know for certain what's afflicting these birds but they clearly are sick with something. As for why it might affect some species more than others, that's not unusual. Just like some people get deathly ill from the flu and others don't feel very bad.
@MrNikonshooter You just gotta think what you're doing by calling this a dead zone and putting it on social media. The tracks out there by noon today were absolutely ridiculous. I was obviously wrong with the wounded by the sight of the swan. I just don't understand. The same flocks are hitting surrounding ponds and I see no dead. Has there been a water test out there? It has been drained and under construction for few years.
@king3wheeler1 I don't know why you're not seeing any dead birds in other areas around there. I don't claim to be an expert on whatever this is. But I can tell you that over here on the Mississippi River I've seen the same things that Kip is reporting on. Lots of dead Canada geese, and dying ones exhibiting the same behavior as the ones in his videos. It seems highly unlikely that the cause is something in the water when there are multiple outbreaks in different locations.
Your drone footage is awesome love seeing the birds. All the dead geese 😢
Thank you. I would rather not have this opportunity, but we sometimes nature's "bad" happens in our backyard. I am unable to ignore it.
We counted 41 dead geese at 2:00 pm today. There were 19 eagles feeding on the carcasses. Bad deal.
What state is this?
Iowa
Terribly sad stuff.
It doesn't look like there are many ducks using that spot at all. Hopefully they left for a spot that doesn't have a bunch of sick birds in it
There had been mallards and a few others. Earlier I recorded one canvasback gasping for air near a sick goose. Other than I am not seeing sick ducks.
I think we need to calm down with calling this a disease dead zone. Why are the swans not dying. The first video was days after duck season and you can see the number of dead ducks. Now duck season is close and goose season is still open funny all the birds that are dying are geese. Hunters come from miles away to hunt here. The last three months it as bin WW 3 out there. Yes, goose hunting is closed out there,But everybody rides the line around it. I am a avid outdoorsman and hunted it the past 3 months and seen nothing like this. I've been out checking water around this place for ice fishing and I have Encountered no other dead geese or brids. If it's contagious how come the eagles and swans aren't dying. There is a lot of birds just to say it's the wounded ones, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it's an outbreak.
I respectfully disagree with your assessment that this is not a disease and not happening outside of Sweet Marsh. As today's video shows (uploaded after your comments) we now have a dying trumpeter swan. An early video showed a canvasback gasping for air. Yesterday was more than 3-dozen Canada geese dead with more dying on the ice. I have received numerous calls about sick birds in backyards, in front of businesses, and brought home by dogs. Even the DNR reached out locally to state there is an outbreak. I have monitored Sweet Marsh for many decades. This is unlike anything we have experienced. Even two or three years ago, when a turkey production facility in the county had to euthanize tens of thousands of birds due to avian influenza, the impact was not seen like the situation is currently.
@@king3wheeler1 with all due respect, you don't seem to want to see the reality of the situation. I've been an avid waterfowl hunter all my life and I've never seen anything like this due to hunters wounding birds. You'll see an occasional cripple but never dozens in one area at the same time. I don't know for certain what's afflicting these birds but they clearly are sick with something. As for why it might affect some species more than others, that's not unusual. Just like some people get deathly ill from the flu and others don't feel very bad.
@MrNikonshooter You just gotta think what you're doing by calling this a dead zone and putting it on social media. The tracks out there by noon today were absolutely ridiculous. I was obviously wrong with the wounded by the sight of the swan. I just don't understand. The same flocks are hitting surrounding ponds and I see no dead. Has there been a water test out there? It has been drained and under construction for few years.
@king3wheeler1 I don't know why you're not seeing any dead birds in other areas around there. I don't claim to be an expert on whatever this is. But I can tell you that over here on the Mississippi River I've seen the same things that Kip is reporting on. Lots of dead Canada geese, and dying ones exhibiting the same behavior as the ones in his videos. It seems highly unlikely that the cause is something in the water when there are multiple outbreaks in different locations.