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[calhound]

hi you guys its 32 here 45 light rain in iceland 38 in kviv 51 in the barn yay to scott and his awesome dogs. nice pic of doc with his birds.

hi neva i was thinking that dont be just staring at that owl cause yes neva nuts all over the place anymore. i hope they dont go on about it on tv either keep an eye out but a careful eye.

hi joho i think shell oil should be in big trouble too. so much greed in the world. i went and read on pa bear said two cubs she has and i did not see anywhere talking about moving them. said she did chew some wood under there make more head room but it was okay. that later she would move her kids to the woods in the back teach them to climb etc. they would not pull them apart i am sure of that if one gets move all gets move but right now does not look like that will take place.

gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us

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[johoward]

4:43 Good for me. Been up a while, and mouse is grabbing on the first try. That helps my time.
On PA cubs I meant I think the mom will take them out soon, because they are so active and the weather is nice.  I see some green shoots and crocuses coming up here and there already.  I don't have all that snow everyone else has.  Not sure of PA snow cover.  Maybe they do have a lot and cubs will be a while going out.  I hope they do stay.  I like to see them.
Did not see much doggy action on rescue cam.  Did see the donkey barn.  Everyone looks happy to be inside.
Need still to go visit other cams now.  So CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine and get Cousin Alice home with confidence and comfort.

[calihoula]

hi joho on update today scotts sled dogs the two front dogs one white with black looks like penny. her ears do not stand up her nose not that long and pointed and penny carries lot more weight on her. penny would never ever wear that harness stuff be close to those other dogs i mean NEVER  okay yes mom be taking her kids out soon. i let indy out of the barn it rained hard here and corral is muddy i hate mud and ice indy hates mud. he will never be out in ice rain snow but it will be cold raining then snow thursday friday boy needs to stretch out work stomach and stuff he goes out for two hours sometimes less cause he wants back in. he loves loves treats pieces of cookie gram crackers little debbie fancy cakes sweets he loves them too shoot i do too. one big treat store in the barn. so i got my cane put his halter on unlocked door slid it open i have to walk to end of corral open that gate but trying to get indy out he stuck his head out looked down umm i dont think so come on indy got a big tarp covers that big door keep my four barn birds in. sweets bawling he dont want indy to go. i had cookies in my pockets look indy he did moved out little more i pulled him out got door shut walked way on the side less mud to the corral gate opened it indy back by barn door come on boy i got another cookie. what you do. here he came walking clear over to the side less muddy. boy went out rolled maybe followed me out too. got her back in barn told sweets you know he will be back went out going up sidewalk indy calling me he was at big gate where we drive in with gator truck tractor i said boy only two hours you will be okay he said fine ill just eat some grass. grass starting to turn green screw ball weather i am not ready to mow have bugs snakes no winter come back.

[calhound]

Nose to Nose Surprises with Bears - UPDATE February 28, 2023

Juliet - March 14, 2010
Catching up with my old junior college friend Tom Dygert on the phone a few days ago, he told me of an exciting bear experience he had in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula back on November 14, 1977. Exploring the woods near the town of Marinisco, he saw what might be an old bear den. Crawling in several feet to see what it’s like in a bear den, he paused to let his eyes dilate in the darkness. When he could see, he was one inch from the bear’s nose and backed out pronto. I was amazed to hear his story, having seen a lot of bears more expressive than that. But each bear has its own personality, and I have a nice memory of nearly the same thing happening to me on March 14, 1986. It was a 21-year-old mother with three cubs. I was with my USFS boss and was trying to not do anything that would seem unsafe. It was a surface bed—not much of a den. She seemed lethargic. It was windy. I knelt down, put my camera up to my face and wondered what was wrong. It wouldn’t focus and was just black. I pushed the button a couple times but still the same. I took the camera down from my face to see what was wrong and found we were nearly nose-to-nose. With the wind, I hadn’t heard her lunge three feet to my face. What I was seeing was her black fur too close to be in focus. I quickly moved back and was amazed she had done nothing as we were suddenly face to face with me backing away like Tom did. But it gave me a good feeling to see this bear show once again that black bears are far more likely to show restraint than ferocity. It was doubly amazing to me that she was not more defensive considering that she was so wary that she evaded my barrel traps for four years before I finally caught and radio-collared her. Then she went on to become the oldest bear of that long-term study, making it to 29¾ before being shot by a hunter in 1994. She had her last cub, a single (just like Shadow’s last cub Spanky was a single) at the age of 26 in 1991.

The picture is a bear in a den but is neither of the above bears. It is 7-year-old Juliet (daughter of Shadow) back on March 14, 2010, one of my favorite pictures of a mother looking out of her den.

Thank you for all you do,
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center

[calhound]

hi you guys its 35 here 45 light rain in iceland 28 in kviv 51 in the barn, i will say no comment to update and poor juliet

i just see big horse with its blanket on and i got the same blankets up in the attic i used on mine. no furnace in the barn back then but had a barn with blankets on. snowing at falcon cam

gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us

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[calhound]

went back to donkey cam before i leave here and now see elvis and mab 

[johoward]

7:08  Falls reminds me of where I learned to swim.  Taught myself above a dam in the Rocky River.  Don't know my age, but it was early in the same year I started school at age five.  I was pretty little, and very lucky to be here I guess.
Don't know why I told you all that. 
Now I am done with my coffee.  I need to go pay some bills, and finish reading the paper. All is well here in Ohio.  GBU and GB Ukraine.

[calhound]

Amazing Bear Muzzles - UPDATE March 1, 2023

Lily and Juliet
Today someone sent me this Amazing Bear Muzzle presentation posted by the Bear Facts and Fun Group several years ago. Today, Pond-chat Mod Marge posted it on Pond Chat, and it is so good, I wanted everyone to see it. It is about black bear muzzles, which play a big part in our ability to identify individuals. It gives good information and uses familiar, favorite bears as examples: Faith, Bow, Oliana, June, Juliet, Lily, Jewel, RC, Honey, and Juliet’s baby Sybil.

Here it is: https://www.facebook.com/notes/2902201456724405

Thank you for all you do and thank you Bear Facts and Fun Group for so many things like this.

Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center

[calhound]

hi you guys its 28 here 41 raining in iceland 41 and cloudy in iceland 51 in the barn. look joho our friend marge on update. 

penny with her loud high pitch barking and brownie joining in at 12:30 am stepping on me and did it again and again i heard jim out in the kitchen yelled why are you up yelling back furnace is not working i yelled fix it later but he did not so furnace got fixed cause it was running when i went out to the barn earlier. next time i will let them two loud mouths out of my room go back to bed.

hi joho my mom signed me up for swimming lessons at our towns pool. i was like 7 i knew how to ride a horse but not swim. i remember it still standing along side of pool smell of it and looking down seeing the bottom. after that went to the pool alot in the summer too hot to ride my horse walk to the pool. they had frozen candy bars at the snack bar yum. nice to have young teeth back then. nice to be young period. jim telling the girls hi girls. i got office work today and go to town to the bank get gas in my car. jim just in here good we had the ignitor here in my office he put that on the furnace he said it was 59 in the house i said its 51 in the barn and i take off my coat in there dogs not cold could of waited he said he could not sleep i said well that is in your head.

horse and elvis and mab in the barn house keeping needs to come like i just did out in my barn.

gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us

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[calhound]

good kitty in dog shame

[johoward]

5:48 I am not fully awake yet.  No pills, no blood reading, no cereal, no coffee, just a puzzle and a few emails, but I am  happy.
I did see Marge in the update.  She is very intuitive about the bears and us bearheads too.
That cat might be named Cal the mouse rescuer.  I am wondering where did the mouse go?
Most eagles are doing better these days, but the Big Bear pair have left the nest and not returned.  I think the vicious winter was too much for them.   Too bad.
Now I really have to get my day started before I forget where I was. LOL
I will CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine

[calihoula]

Eagle Update Stories

March 1, 2023 - Sticky Shift Changes and Little Nature Breaks

Eagle Update Pictures
Yesterday morning, after Shadow’s first all-nighter on the nest this season, Jackie came in before sunrise to give him some time off. Shadow didn’t wait long before turning the nest over to Jackie. He shook off his wings on the front porch and headed out for a well-earned break--he was on the nest for about 17 hours, not quite as long as Jackie’s record of over 27 hours.

The nest camera was down at that time, so we watched this shift change from Cam2, the wide-angle camera. With snow on the solar panels, the batteries are slow to recharge and did not have enough power to run the main camera.

While Jackie and Shadow were changing places, the night light on the nest went off—and they did not seem to notice. That’s because it is an Infrared light, which is not visible to either eagles or humans. The camera lens, however, can pick up that infrared light and allow us to see what’s happening on the nest at night even though it still looks dark to the eagles.

Shadow brought Jackie some breakfast a few hours later, which she happily and loudly claimed as ‘mine, mine’ then chowed down quickly before returning to the eggs.

The main camera came back online in time to see Shadow return with a lovely stick for the nest. He tried putting it along the edge of the nest, but that didn’t seem right, so he put it on Jackie’s back. Apparently, Jackie wasn’t in the mood for shenanigans today so she got up immediately and let him have the nest bowl for egg-duty. Shadow looked a little shocked at how easy that was but happily moved in to take over his job.

After a few hours on the nest, Shadow flew off the front porch and then returned in under a minute. He probably just needed a bathroom break and he is much more modest about doing those on camera than Jackie. She simply moves to the edge of the nest, does her business and then chortles out an announcement to the neighborhood that that has been taken care of.

Jackie returned to the nest in the early afternoon and had a lunch of some frozen leftovers before settling into the nest bowl.

The cameras have been up and down as our batteries run out of charge, which they are doing because the system is solar powered and the solar panels have been either covered with snow or shaded in cloudy weather. They will likely be down for the day until the snow stops and we get more sun tomorrow. Since the nest is in the middle of the national forest, with no electric service, solar power is the only thing available. And with roads closed and over 4 or 5 feet of snow on the ground, it is not possible to get to the solar panels or equipment. Jackie and Shadow know how to handle the snow much better than our equipment does, so we will simple know that they are fine until we get to check back in on them when the sun comes out.

Thank you for your understanding!

Sandy

[johoward]

Thanks Cal for the good report on Big Bear nest. 
Maybe I saw an old report.  I hope.  It said egg stuck to dad's chest when he stood up, and mom left for good.  Maybe was another nest like in MN or somewhere.  I get them confused sometimes. 
Have been watching the Deer Pantry a lot lately.  I love to see the young deer frolicking and racing around in the snow.
Gotta go to store soon.  43 degrees and sunny out.  Need to wash off yesterday's grime too.
So CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine

[calhound]

They'll never see me

[calhound]

hi you guys its 34 here raining not seeing any snow just rain and it can go away 40 raining in iceland 42 in kyiv and 51 in the barn. horse elvis and mab in the barn dont see any snow at falcon cam world news showing that snow in california on the passes and no one passing thru that. poor eagles all over poor wildlife all over in that unless you are a polar bear or made for that.

i got to feed all and tons of bookwork for business today cant put it off any longer

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gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us