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Today we went out on a short trip to visit our dolphins
and within minutes the young four to eight year old males
were all together wandering up the shipping channel. Most
of their mothers are with new babies this year. As Angel,
Buddy, Gumdrop, Scar, and others were playing I was whining
to them that I had missed a wonderful photo op last night
with two youngsters showing their faces at the same time,
a photo I have still to manage after ten years with them.
I laughed with them as they rubbed their tummies along
the pontoon hulls of my research vessel and begged them
for a great shot as my camera was ready. The couple that
joined us on the boat looked at me with disbelief as I
spoke to my wild dolphin study group. Then there it was
, and here it is, the few seconds they gave me. They are
incredible... and more blog tomorrow on new babies!!!!
Oh and we had a great rare bird yesterday at the South
Padre Island Convention Center too. A Black Whiskered
Vireo!! See that photo on our nature
center site...
Scarlet
and George Colley of South Padre Island's "Fins
to Feathers" have been filming and documenting
their dolphins for eight years. They operate a tour business
on the Island and write seven articles a month for local
papers on the nature of the Island. |
