Icy water droplets on big-toothed aspen leafThe pretty maple leaves that arched over WRI’s driveway on October 10 are down and being covered with big-toothed aspen leaves. Raindrops from yesterday froze overnight as you can see on the big-toothed aspen leaf. More leaves were ready to come down after the frost. Big-toothed aspen leaves showered down with each gust of wind this morning. Dramatic against the blue sky.
After the mention last night of chickadees feeding from our hands, a Lily Fan sent a link to an article about how to get birds to do that. http://www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/attracting-birds/feeding-birds/feeding-birds-hand.
Big-toothed aspen leaves fallingTomorrow, a group of Lily Fans will help cut the top 60 feet off the dead white pine that leans toward the WRI Cabin. Cross your fingers. We’ll cut it about 3 feet below where I tied the rope the other day.
On Sunday morning early, Donna and I head for Winnipeg 7 ½ hours away for The Wildlife Society conference to talk about what we all saw on the Den Cams. The talk is at 11:20 AM CDT in the RBC Convention Center.
I don’t know how I’ll write updates on the trip, so I suspect we’ll lose this communication for a few days.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
All photos taken today unless otherwise noted.