After Ted’s nice outing yesterday, Lucky and Holly were out with Tasha this afternoon. A Lily Fan captured some of the action in these three videos.
Herring gull
Holly chases Tasha Video: 41 seconds It was a fast chase that a Lily Fan captured, but no one was there to see it. We’ll be watching for anything like that to see if precautions are necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUXjFQt_B4
Lucky out in big enclosure. In this 5 minutes and 49 seconds video, Lucky explores the enclosure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJUrlybFZsw
Herring gullA few minutes later, Lucky took his first swim of the year on this 50°F day, he stayed in less than 3 minutes. This is a 3 minute 14 second video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TaWE3IpjW8
Out the window, birds are arriving on the southerly winds that are bringing our warm weather. Today, as the usual gull was descending for his pieces of bologna, two other gulls were circling (jealously?) overhead. Neither of those landed, though, so they probably are not ones that got to know the program here last year.
Website maintenanceOur webmaster will doing some maintenance work on our websites starting at 9:30 PM CDT Friday night. We should be up again by 5:30 AM Saturday, likely well before then. I’m told we should not do an update tomorrow night, and I’m the kind of guy who does what he is told, so there will be no update tomorrow night.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center