With the temperature in the high 30’s°F overnight and throughout the day, most of the ice and snow melted off Woods Lake. I hope Quill is dry and warm enough.
Woods lake with ice melted
Den - 10/30/13Mike and Lorie checked a den that Lily, Eli, and Ellie dug in fall 2013 before deciding on the deep rock den. The picture is of that den from October 30, 2013.
Earlier this year, Sean Robison came across that den and said it looked like a bear had enlarged it. He put a trail cam there, and it did catch a bear checking it out.
Bear near den on 8/24/16Today, they retrieved the card from a later trail cam and found that a bear had also checked it out on August 24 at 4:25 PM but we can’t see the bear well enough to say who it is. The main thing we learned today is that the den got rejected again. Empty.
It got dark before they could check a second den, and they’re tied up for the next week, so more later.
A Lily Fan captured a cute conversation at the Bear Center between Manny the Mannequin and Rocky the squirrel.
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Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center