Droopy beat up by the gang

Here are photos of a loner dolphin we call droopy and with in the last few days he has been unmercifully beaten up by some older male dolphins. We do not know who but you can see his tail is ripped to shreds and the teeth rake and puncture marks all over his body. His only friend a Remora keeps him company as he begins the healing process. I have seen our dolphins recover from worse injuries but there is a question on how much internal damage he may have received from the pounding he took. Poor baby. I thank my group on board who helped me by driving the boat for me while I got these photos. This is the first dolphin for me to film this beaten up in the twelve years I have been filming and documenting their lives here in the laguna madre bay. Perhaps it has something to do with the recent loss of our alpha male Frosty. Later I saw all the older matriarch females in the bay watching over the pass in and out of the jetties.

Newborn dolphin Nov. 18

As Mohawk and his family played around us excitedly I suspected something was happening that was fabulous and so it turns out a newborn baby was the celebration.
Here are my photos of the new baby , Mohawk who has healed so beautifully from his injury, see previous blogs , and of a mother carrying something in her mouth, which does not appear to be a fish.

here are the photos to go with our post on texbird

the kisskadee chases the bird but he slips thru the tree and hopefully he will stay around.
I hope.