RedpollWith spring just four days away, the temperature reached 53°F. "Taught" caught Tasha breaking snow and coming halfway out at the Bear Center in this 35-second video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3X7av7hNgo. Word was that she later went up on top of her rock den.
On Woods Lake out the window, snow is melting off the ice, revealing whatever eagle food has frozen into it. An eagle was picking at a brown blotch that Donna and I could hardly see from a tenth of a mile away. As the eagle headed toward a bigger lake, I could hardly believe my camera focused on it through the trees. Back at the brown blotch, four crows were immediately on it. An hour later, it was two eagles.
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On this sunny day, redpolls showed their colors—this one with feathers missing from its forehead.
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On a melancholy note, the green van that so many of you have ridden in during Black Bear Field Courses is sitting in the North American Bear Center parking lot rusted and tired, waiting for the junk man. Visible behind it is the replacement 10-passenger van that has never gone over the cliff that made us all scream and then ask to do it again. Fun. So many memories.
Thank you for all you do,
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center