Barry & Linda canoeing - Aug 21, 2012With the whirlwind Black Bear Field Course over, we caught up on sleep and details. We shopped, napped, and washed windows so clean that a hummingbird came to watch its reflection in them.
We examined details of Colleen’s movements from last year and this year for clues to where her mystery den might be—the den that may hold her last 2 radio-collars. We're anxious to walk the mile through the forest to the steep hillside that looks most promising. Just a matter of finding the time.
We hope to get a radio-collar on Braveheart’s daughter Oliana, but we haven’t seen her lately. Baiting started Friday the 17th and we’ve noticed a change in bear movements since then.
The picture tonight is of people canoeing and photographing wildlife along the shore of beautiful little Woods Lake yesterday before breakfast. The wooded shoreline is intriguing itself in the morning light and seeing wildlife is an added bonus. The great duck picture in last night’s update was taken by Wildlife Biologist/Photographer Barry Nichols with the help of canoeing instructor Linda Mickelson, two of the course participants.
Full moon - Aug 2, 2012We snapped the picture of the rising moon a couple weeks ago. It turned out underexposed but gave a look at the moon we didn’t anticipate.
Two people asked where the update was last night. They regularly get them by email but didn’t get one for yesterday. We don’t know what happened. Other people did get them just fine. An unknown glitch. Last night’s update with its many pictures is available, as always, in the upper right corner of the home page on bear.org via the “Read all the daily updates at the WRI website” link.
Today, we finally plugged into the thermometer the $15,000 many of you contributed for the Lilypad Picnic a month ago. That brings the total for the Hope Education Building to $554,741 with “only” $345,259 needed to make the $900,000. We are excited about what the building will bring for education both locally and worldwide.
Thank you for all you do.
—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center