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Wonderful Thanksgiving - UPDATE November 27, 2015

Red SquirrelRed SquirrelOn Thanksgiving, Donna and I did nothing and we're thankful for it.   I can’t remember a better turkey.  Donna tried Scott Edgett’s method of baking it uncovered for a half hour at 500 degrees and then covered with tinfoil for a couple hours at 350 degrees.  I usually don’t like white meat because it’s dry.  Yesterday it was moist and tender.  Scott’s method will be part of our household.  The rest of the day, we watched crying movies on Hallmark channel.  They’re all the same—a couple feels attraction, encounters a problem, and makes us hug and wipe away happy tears when they finally get together.    

ChickadeeChickadeeToday, it was back to the calmer life—at the Wildlife Research Institute.  Outside, Vinnie the (Meadow) Vole made fast furtive forays from under the bear scale for sunflower seeds.  The two pictures are of the same vole.

Chickadees fluttered close as I poured  sunflower seeds.  A red squirrel climbed up my blue jeans as I clicked the picture of the downy woodpecker showing its bill that is so much smaller than the hairy woodpecker’s in the November 15 update.

Red squirrels have their thick winter fur that’s never thick enough to be active when temperatures are far below zero F.

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Downey Woodpecker Meadow Vole Meadow Vole

Thank you for all you do.

Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center


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