Usually I use this time of year to use sighting of them to help me get get out and paddle.
This is the time when you can go out and sweat while sitting in the shade at 0800(8 AM) but even then the humidity is heavy enough that that sweat can’t cool you.
I haven’t seen any out there, but I got home and found out why.
Five or six of them have been circling my house and the sound of them has made me think that they might be nesting across the pond.
I still want to kayak, but am enticed by the sound of the swallow tails, who I only heard in North Florida. To have them nest near my house is enough of a treat that ( if I believed ) would be blessing.
When I started kayaking, swans would appear in the area starting around September. They made the most amazing wooshing sound as the flew overhead with the long graceful wing strokes.
I heard they were considered invasive and too destructive to the ecosystem, so the Swan Squad apparently disrupted the nest by shaking the eggs so the adult would continue to sit. My grand kids will never witness that graceful beauty and gentle sound!!!
They primarily eat insects and small critters like frogs and lizards. They don’t eat fish that I am aware of. You are probably thinking of Terns with many species having forked tails, and they do dive for fish. They do look similar to the Swallow-tailed Kite.
