HoneyMelting is quickening with a warm 54°F breeze and sun, and Honey couldn’t resist going for a walk as was captured by a Lily Fan in this 7:29 video. Honey walked down to her old window den and possibly drank from the creek beside it. She found her old bowl and checked it out. Tracks show that she stopped by her old rock den where she spent a winter with Lucky in the winter of 2008-9. That was Judy McClure trying to get her picture at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSNNo8CyV0s&.
ChickadeeInside the Bear Center, Scott and Moe made six short videos to bring us up to date on the state of the extreme makeover.
The new entryway (3:22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3FurzovGxs
Coming into the Bear Center (2:09) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJxI76e_KBQ
The huge change to the exhibits (1:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccx7l52hFZ0
The camping with bears exhibit (3:45) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8oPk5eRqN4
Cleaning the aquarium (2:28) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9egZoBG1xo
Feeding the birds and Manny (3:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGbiqmrmTXg
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| Exhibits | Honey | Exhibits |
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| Footprints to window den | Pond | Footprints to old rock den |
Out the window at the WRI, the sharp-shinned hawk is more active every day, sitting just 8 feet outside the window to make its passes at the birds. Although the redpolls came from an arctic area where there are no sharp-shinned hawks, they still recognized it and stayed away from it no matter how quietly the hawk sat there. I don’t know if it is the hawk or the warm weather, but the redpolls have all but disappeared (only 2 seen today). The hawk is now making passes at chickadees, and it keeps its eye open better now. I don’t know that it has caught anything.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center