Manantee in Manhattan (1 Viewer)

Manatee in Manhattan

Here's a news item about a manatee that has appeared in New York, apparently under its own steam. The story mentions some other vagrancy records as well.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2283962&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Hope it fares better than London's bottle-nosed whale.

atb
James

James Blake said:

Here's a news item about a manatee that has appeared in New York, apparently under its own steam. The story mentions some other vagrancy records as well.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2283962&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Hope it fares better than London's bottle-nosed whale.

atb
James

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Dear James,

The manatee must have passed within a few hundred meters of my flat, but it is now rather farther up the Hudson. Being so far north and so far up a river is very unusual behaviour for a manatee but it is under constant observation. The Hudson is now so clean that there is talk of having bathing beaches on its Manhattan shore. However, the manatee is not made for our winters.

Happy nature observing,
Arthur Pinewood :hi:

I just heard about it. The farthest it's gotten was Kingston, which is in Ulster county.

Let's also hope that boaters in the area keep their engines off when nearby so that it doesn't die unneccesarily.

Too bad we don't have our boat in the Hudson River anymore, a couple months ago we boated up to Albany to move it to its new home in the Great Sacandaga Lake.