Another couple weeks watching the family grow. Have observed a change in one of the adults, think the male. He has gotten very aggressive on random days. I have a 18′ skiff with low gunnels so the top rail is 12″ or so from the water. This week, the male actually came over and bit
Swan family Robinson showed up on May 18th, 2024, 65 days ago, see photo below. The Signets, baby swans, have to feed themselves right from the beginning. The parents will help find food, but they do not feed their babies directly. Photo below was our first meeting. Mom had soften up the food pellets so
The crew showed up for lunch today. Both adult were pissed about something or real hungry! Lots of hissing and lunging, so much so, was throwing the feed over their heads to the signets on the outside. Hope they didn’t eat something that messed with their heads. The signets are growing up with their tail
Had a home on the beach, but lived far from it. Put up weather station and camera to be able to check for waves. Figured a second use of the site would be to draw attention to the pollution and litter of our world. Was a big problem back then, that has gotten worse since
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Stubbies have arrived! I saw the beginning of wings on the signets when they showed up for breakfast this morning. Their necks are starting to turn white and most exciting is the little guy with the fish hook, bait and line has freed himself of it. Again Mother Nature at work, happy to see a
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BabylonStunning night to sleep, sunrise still and cool, the mermaid grass, strange seaweed I guess, is rotting but still hanging at the surface with long dead clumps below. The killies come and feast on it daily. Saw some of the rotting mass float out of the Carls River on the west side of the Babylon
Life arrives! For the first time, we see any sort of life in the water. Last week, saw a micro crab type creature in some grass I pulled up, but only 1 of them. Today there are many killies feasting on the rotting grass as it starts to sink. Mother Nature at work. The canal
June 15th, the canal was clean as it can be. It is a dead end, 250 foot long canal that faces east at the mouth of Sampawams Creek which is just east of the Carlls River. Tons of seaweed floats in with the random storm that brings east winds. Been here 4 years now, have
Changed the link for Todays Tides to site called tides4fishing.com. Found them looking around and was impressed with there data and layout. They listed Babylon as a location with a latitude and longitude only. Looked them up and was right in front of the Babylon Village Dock! Some interesting stuff on the Moon and the
We have been feeding a Swan couple for the last year or so. They disappeared last month. Last week, one of the swans showed back up. Thought that the more aggressive of the two had been killed as he liked people. Turns out he was the she. Thought the bigger one would be the male.