Lily making tracks after breakup with Faith - May 7, 2012Jo and Victoria have split. From Jo’s movements, we suspect they split about 7 AM this morning. That’s when Jo began a fast 4-mile trek off to the other side of her area. We spotted her about 7 PM alone.
June still can’t seem to give up Aster and Aspen. They were together at 8 PM this evening. June was as good as ever with them, grunting her concern at any vocalization from either of them and deferring to them when they wanted to eat.
As of this evening, Donna was still with her 3 yearlings as well. Shadow has not been seen recently so we are unsure whether she has her 3 yearlings with her still.
A video of Lily taken within hours of her breakup with Faith on May 7 has been posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6roHHkzqpCk. This video is a bit different in that Lily was on the move – and so was the camera. You, too, can follow Lily through the woods as she straddles trees to leave her scent and carefully sniffs branches to pick up the scent of others.
Beyond that, the temperature reached 87 F today and tonight feels like a balmy summer night, with spring peepers, gray tree frogs, and the first American toad calling. But unlike summer nights, with this drought, there is hardly a mosquito. We would gladly take mosquitoes any day over the threat of forest fires from the drought.
Because the BBC was in the midst of their live broadcast of Planet Earth Live: Episode 6 when word came in about the forest fire just outside Ely, viewers around the world learned about the fire before many right here in the north country. Learn more at 'Ely fire gains quick worldwide attention' http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/231882/group/homepage/ and 'Winds worry fire crews as they battle to contain blaze near Ely' http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/231902/.
Thank you for all you do.
—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center