They are amazing birds-


most people don't know that their tongue is almost as long as their body and it retracts around their brain to absorb the shock from hammering; shock that could otherwise kill them.


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In the legend of King Arthur, the Fisher King was a renowned angler whose errant ways caused him to be struck dumb in the presence of the sacred chalice. I am no great fisherman, and a steelhead is not the covenant of Christ, but with each of these fish I am rendered speechless.