Raven flying overheadIn the 7 ½ minute highlight video (Part 1 of 2) from the wee hours of the morning on March 6, 2014, (low 8° below zero F) the family is remarkably quiet. The main vocalizations are from a cub with no eyeshine that gets displaced from its resting spot by a more-developed cub with fully open eyes (or nearly so).
Part 1 of 2
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7pqyNjA4p0
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/121512429
In Part 2 of 2 (8 ½ minutes), the quiet is interrupted mainly by contented nursing. At 12:50 PM, Juliet spends nearly 10 minutes eating snow, followed by a latrine break and rearranging of her bedding as a howling wind swirls the fine fragments of her bed. A cub with eyeshine from at least one eye was briefly visible as Juliet rearranged her bedding.
Part 2 of 2
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Xy5hBBbgU
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/121512431
Archives: http://www.bearstudy.org/website/research/2014-juliet-archives.html
Deer runningNear Ely, a deer showed why it is called a white-tailed deer, and a raven showed the long, rounded tail that separates ravens from crows in flight.
Congratulations to a little brown bat that made it to at least 32 years of age and to my old advisor Elmer Birney and my old fellow grad student Gerda Nordquist for banding it back in 1983 at the same place where it was recorded again 2 days ago.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
All photos taken today unless otherwise noted.