Swans

When hunting season starts I will be trained to hunt with Dad. So I thought I'd get a head start chasing birds now.

While we shelter in place and keep up our six feet of social distancing, it appears our isolation gives fuel to our imagination to soften the blow in times of crisis. Boredom and lack of worldly activities might be the cause for conjuring up some fake animal news stories.

Unfortunately, when a movie has flawed expectations regarding a box office $ucce$$, it needs to do double-time after the fact to get a decent return on investment (ROI).

Social media has gone crazy with images of swans and dolphins that have reportedly "returned" to the canals of Venice. What with severely limited human activity the air and water have started to become cleaner that usual. Wild animal activity has begun to change in some areas. Sadly these swans and dolphins are not part of this change. This pictures are not even from Venice.

Whether it be for relocation, or simply for seasonal staycations, it's not only northern homo sapiens heading to warmer southern climes during the winter months. It's also our birds. Did you know our Arctic birds are flocking together in coastal migrations from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the ACE Basin?

Chances are that you have never seen a swan in flight, or, if you did, you didn't know that you were looking at a swan. You probably thought it was a goose.

I have to say that there is nothing ugly about these babies unless you are a duck and were expecting ducklings. These are cygnets, or baby swans.

Just in case you missed Al Roker's weather forecast and your smart phone isn't speaking to you, you need a way to tell what the weather will be. This elegant Weather Predicting Swan Glass does it old school.