Today was a day of setting up the booth for the Blueberry Arts Festival, organizing the garage, visiting a bear den to get some den measurements, and writing. Bears came and went with no Black Bear Field Course participants to share the excitement with. 
2017 NABC Blueberry Festival boothGull that have trained me to throw them bologna got me out of my chair every few minutes, which is healthy.
My wife just called with a story from the Bear Center. As they were releasing a monarch butterfly that they had raised from a tiny caterpillar, they learned something I didn’t know. A big dragonfly swooped in and caught a different monarch in mid flight and retreated across the highway with it. Monarchs have been coming to the milkweed and other flowers around the Bear Center. Donna wondered how many have been caught that way.
On another note, as the BBC documentaries air across the nation from time to time and I see the comments about them and how people are affected by them and how their attitudes change while watching them, I feel deeply thankful that the BBC took an interest in our work and produced 13 documentaries or programs in the last decade. Each one was estimated by the BBC to reach 100 million or 250 million people, depending upon whether it aired on BBC2 or BBC1. They are making a difference for bears and coexistence.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center