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They were starting to get ready to learn to fly. One took the leap of faith and off it went out the deck door, fluttering and going from side to side. The two parents followed it outside and flew in big circles around it. The little bird finally landed on the shed roof and just sat there for 20 minutes looking around at the big wide world. The parents sat on the antenna wires near it. Finally the parents got that little one to fly again and then they tried to get it to fly back into the deck area. It missed the door three times but
the parents kept flying in and out and it finally got back to the nest.
Three flew yesterday and the last this morning. Now they are back and forth.
The mess is little problem compared to the joy of watching these wonderful swallows. They eat hundreds and hundreds of bugs each day.
Hopefully they'll make it back next season.
In Atlin when the Swallow babies first fly the Sea Gulls eat well over half of the hatch.
It was all fine and dandiy to see her eating the fireweed. Vikki watched her for an hour. But then during the night she walked over the rails and proceeded to eat all the fireweed around the cabin. All the honey bees are wondering what happened.
These were taken last March when the Beaver De Havilland picked up Henri and Bryan. Chris took them on a tour of the Sutlahine Valley and then some great views on the way to Atlin. Bryan went out to Atlin for 10 days. When he was packing to come back here, he'd stored the camera in a used coffee can with other same items and the can got left in Atlin. Bryan said it was an AMAZING trip. If you look up the trip to the Sutlahine Glacier we made in March.... This is the ariel view.
In the little village of
Atlin, BC, we have a garage with living space up in the small loft.
Down in the main garage we have some furniture, a fridge, and a big deep freeze. Also a old hotplate unit that our pilot friend has lent us.
We have an old style TV with rabbit ears but we never hooked it up yet. Always too many people to talk to.
The shop/garage allows lots of room for packing and storing the supplies we need to stay out on the trap line for the long winter.
The crew is all sleeping....Vikki is canning meat balls to take out on the line because we do not run the small propane deep freeze until late fall. In previous years we've tried to keep cooked hams, sausages, hotdogs etc by hanging them off the dock in the water but the summer water is too warm. Also tried storing them in the cold running creek in milk cartons but the wolves found the stuff. Now we just take in canned meats.... whether home make or bought en.
For the meat balls..... they are better cooked in the oven but because we don't have one it is by fry pan. Once in the canning jars Vikki
adds a hot brown gravy on top of the meat balls. These will make many different types of easy meals in a hurry out in the bush.... they can go in spaghetti sauce, cut into pieces for sandwiches, etc etc.
Super Store had really good prices on strawberries, blueberries and bananas. Vikki got them ready for the deep freeze. In the freezer are boxes marked Sept. Jan. March.
When Chris flies out in the winter he just goes into our garage and loads up all the Jan. marked boxes in the freezer and Jan. boxes packed along the side of the garage. The same with his flight in March.
We're back to make trail for a couple of weeks. We left the chickens out near Atlin and will bring them in in the fall. Also GREAT NEWS .... in our mail was permission from the BC Government for another line cabin. We immediately went and started the consultation process with the Tlingit First Nations. As I post this Bryan is out in the rain down near the Inklin River starting the wall tent platform.
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