Course participants out for a paddleAnother day of meeting bears, including Juliet’s 2-year-old daughter Sophie who would have been ideal for research. We don’t know where she got her calm personality. She’s not a bear we’ve seen at the WRI until the last couple days. Some bears are just quicker to become calm than others. What a beautiful delight she is with her nicely marked face and trusting presence.
Fawn - July 7We saw her crossing a road on her way here and wondered if we’d get a picture of her on the shore of the lake she would pass. Three of us jumped in a canoe to try, but she took a different route. We looked for but didn’t see the mother merganser with 10 little ones.
Mallard diving - July 7The fawn picture and family of ducks are pictures we couldn’t squeeze in last night. The mallard with her head underwater is the mother catching the crayfish the ducklings then mobbed her to get.
Mallard family - July 7Before our hike to Lily’s den of this past winter and Jewel’s den of two winters ago, it was finally time for intensive learning—lecture time. The returnee in the group took copious notes on topics she didn’t capture in her first course.
Thank you for all you do.
—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
All photos taken today unless otherwise noted.