Catching up on videos, I see Lucky and Holly had quite a romp a couple days ago. A Lily Fan caught it with music in this 6:22 video. 
Herring gullThey wrestled, swam, broke up the ice on the pond, and made it a grand outing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byds4fi6r4U
Yesterday, Ted had a more relaxed day as captured in this 1:41 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWAc0gBeoao and this 2:03 video of Ted lying on his back with all four feet in the air at night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O5fYlBaPRs.
Tasha is trying to make the viewing area her own. She’s taken up residence in and by the big white pine called the cub tree, and she stomp walks a lot, which is a way of scent-marking. Lily Fans caught her today in this 5:19 video up the cub tree, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_VhdkjRxBM, in the pond (0:41) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehdHl_gsyYc, and relaxing at the base of the cub tree where she can escape upon the appearance of Lucky or Holly (0:28) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR--swL1qf8.
Inside the Bear Center, visitors are enjoying the new fur exhibit and the walkway by the aquarium and terrarium. The wood structures that master craftsmen have built for the Bear Center is just beautiful.
Out the window, Woods Lake is 25% open. Mallards, hooded mergansers, and beavers are swimming. Gulls are competing for suet and bologna. The gull that has been here a couple weeks now has learned to fly over to my desk window to encourage me to bring out bologna. He or she has me well trained already. Robins, dark-eyed juncos, and grackles have arrived. Temperatures are in the 60’s. Spring is here.
In my birthday card today, Donna mentioned that June 24 is the 50th anniversary of when I began my bear studies, or, as Donna wrote it, the bears began studying me. June 24, 1967 is the day I first tranquilized, weighed, and measured a black bear in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Tomorrow, the office staff are doing what they do for each other on their birthdays—having a cake. I understand there will be a broadcast of sorts at noon on the PTZ camera.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center