Mating Season - Tri-County Citizen

Mating Season - Tri-County Citizen

A pair of Canada geese sound the intruder alarm along the banks of the Shiawassee River in Chesaning’s Showboat Park on Wednesday, April 9. Several pairs of the geese had nests along the river as mating season is fully underway. Photo by Keith Salisbury The post Mating Season first appeared on Tri-County Citizen.

Fish envy: it’s mating season for Ithaca's white sucker population - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — Spring has arrived in Ithaca, bringing with it all the normal markers: birdsong, spring flowers … and for the next few days, hundreds of nondescript brown fish the size of your arm, splashing and wriggling their way up Ithaca’s shallow creeks to spawn en masse.These bottom feeding fish are commonly known as “white suckers” — or Catostomus commersonii, if you want to be a bit more formal. While these humble bottom feeders may not b…