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Chat - Sunday, December 18th, 2011.
Topic Started: Dec 18 2011, 05:36 AM (641 Views)
Naturegal
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Ozzie - Mama tiger is beautiful :wub:

Karen - Reservations rofl

Cheryl
- Can't wait to see pics of your new bedroom :clk:
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SAN DIEGO POLAR BEARS ARE STILL DIRTY BUT IT DOESN'T
SEEM TO BOTHER THE VISITORS........
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jillers
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I've had days like this! I also expect more to come!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=FrTbnczYAd4&feature=player_embedded
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12 Midnight. Just popping in!
Hope you all had a soothing day!
Carole - Eagles are sure getting busy. I keep up with ours but can't keep up with all.
Hope Sequoia egg makes it!

Cheryl - Hope the whoopers make it okay!. May you have much enjoyment with your
new bedroom!

Topa - Did check out the reindeer cam!

Michell - Enjoy your new bathroom too! Always nice wheen you can have a different look!
Ah! kitties, you spoiled their fun! rofl

Penny - Jill - Hope it was a pleasant day for you!
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Dec 18 2011, 09:06 PM
12 Midnight. Just popping in!
Hope you all had a soothing day!

Penny - Jill - Hope it was a pleasant day for you!
Night Carol :}^ Sleep well :Zz:
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Lily the Black Bear - Update December 18, 2011

Lily and Faith’s Den Cam Installed!


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Den Cam installed at Lily and Faith's den

Lily and Faith hardly stirred at the sound of “It’s me, bear.” They were busy nursing—a surprise—and they kept doing it. We slid the Den Cam tube into place while Sue watched from New Hampshire and provided feedback on adjustments. The Den Cam is the big white tube to the left in the picture. We installed the Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera where it can swivel to the den entrance and over to a big white pine they bedded next to a lot in the fall.

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Engineer Jim Stroner and our new field technician Ted Parvu

Bill Powers of Pix Controller tested the PTZ camera from Pennsylvania while we were in the field. We slid the microphone down a little crevice where it should get little attention from the bears. A gray cross of smaller boards holds it in place to the right in the picture. Bill Powers of PixController worked from Pennsylvania with Jim Stroner on site to adjust the sound. The picture of the setup was taken from the position of the PTZ camera, so that’s the view we will all get in spring. The white pine is just out of the picture to the right.

Big wolf tracks were at the entrance. We wish we had the den cam in a few days ago to catch their reaction to a wolf pack. Maybe the pack will return or maybe they know it’s a secure bear den and nothing to bother about again.

The Lily and Faith Den Cam can be seen Here.

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Lynn in layers by the solar panels

It was a lot warmer today than the shivering experience of a couple weeks ago. And Lynn was dressed warmer, thanks in part to gifts and hand-me-downs. A group of Lily fans sent him a fleece-sweater that he wears all the time now, and another Lily fan sent a neck warmer that goes will with the sweater. Another fleece layer and a set of long john’s were a gift from Patagonia 21 years ago, still perfect. The coat is a hand-me-down from a vice-president of Elan Ski Company. Lynn loves the coat but is waiting for the vice-president to wear out another one just as good. The hat was designed and made in Ely by polar explorers Paul and Sue Schurke of Wintergreen Designs. Paul was a supporter when Lynn was trying to win sustainable management for Minnesota’s last 2% of white pine trees, which was another case of “first they laugh, then they think, and then they say ‘of course.’ (see www.whitepines.org)

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Lynn installing den cam.......Ted installing PTZ camera

We were surprised to find Lily and Faith nursing. We’d heard that only rarely with yearlings before the Den Cams. So the question is, “Do the Den Cams make them nurse more, or did we usually miss it because bears that didn’t trust us would stop nursing before we got close enough to hear it?” We’d say the right answer is the latter, and learning about yearlings nursing is one of the benefits of this trust-based research. We are so glad that a few bears have learned to ignore us and go about their business. Lily is especially good because we spent many hours at the entrance of her mother June’s den when Lily was a newborn cub. Lily got used to us visiting her then and she accepts us at other dens now. What an opportunity!

Thank you for all you do.

—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
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jillers
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Whew! It was a lot of work but I'm done...got the tree up. Smells good too!
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Even have gifts under the tree. :P
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Jill, rofl :haha:
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