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| Chat - Sunday, March 11th, 2012. | |
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| jillers | Mar 11 2012, 07:01 AM Post #1 |
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Good Morning!  The Irish love their music, so just sit back and enjoy. - Be sure your sound is on. This will raise your spirits: Is this C/W, Irish or a combination of both? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iP27eatYxE&feature=share Topa  I've enjoyed all the beautiful pictures from your trip!
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| Topa Topa Hikers | Mar 11 2012, 07:13 AM Post #2 |
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Good morning jiller's & eagle friends.     Singing in the Choir  Now I'm ready for my walk. I made a smilebox & video; Click if you'd like ~~~~~ ~Fisherman's Wharf and Cannery Row ~ *Monterey California*   |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 11 2012, 07:42 AM Post #3 |
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Good Sunday Morning Cruzers Looks like #4 gets her mate....Pa wants his     for video (1:24)Reese Lukei: At 6:53 male in nest - female #4 on back branch. Male flew to back branch and attempted to mount the female unsuccessfully. At 6:55 the female moved into the nest and the male immediately mounted her and at least attempted to mate. Looks like he has accepted her as his 4th mate of the season. I wonder what happens if #3 does come back 
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 11 2012, 08:12 AM Post #4 |
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Gorgeous Smilebox Topa and I liked the surf video too  for links Photo by Derek Bakken from Minneapolis, MN (Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) UREGNT Please Contact Regarding Wolf Kill Bill AB 502 Posted on March 10, 2012 AB 502/SB 411 – Implements a six month hunting and trapping season for Gray (Timber) wolves which will interfere with the wolves’ breeding season. In addition, allows hunting with dogs and at night-time. There are various other bills which impact children, women's rights and health care. Scroll down for all the information and exercise your voting rights  |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 11 2012, 11:06 AM Post #5 |
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 for video (7:32)Recap by Rhoda Gerig of the 2012 NBG nest happenings not including female #4.
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| circlescribe | Mar 11 2012, 11:25 AM Post #6 |
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Signed the Wolf petition but found the other link had a February 28th deadline.  Must say I'm so sad that Dad and #3 didn't seem to prevail on the nest. Maybe it's a case of, and since she didn't reappear, that as the pub song goes: "Girls get prettier at closing time". 
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| cdn-cdn | Mar 11 2012, 12:29 PM Post #7 |
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Thank you for all your vacation videos and slideshows, Topa. I've enjoyed all of them. It must have been amazing to watch the helicopter working. We walked along that same downtown street and along the shoreline when we were in Monterey on a cruise. The aquarium was fantastic. We'll be returning for sure. Pebble Beach golf course looks like a place for the rich and famous.  I love watching waves crashing against the rocks. Penny, thanks again for all the NBG updates. They are keeping you busy! Pa and his 4 GFWe went to the Purina Dog Show in Toronto yesterday. Jenny's whippets did really well. We didn't stay for everything because of our own dogs being 'Home Alone'. We got lots of free goodies, though. Both of us won a 2 kg bag of dog food on the spin the wheel activity. We also got several bags of treats, some leashes, dog food scoops and so on. Mia and Wynn were sniffing us and our shoes like crazy when we got home. It was so sunny and warm today that we were able to sit outside on the deck with the dogs.
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| jillers | Mar 11 2012, 01:45 PM Post #8 |
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"Warning" If you, your kids or grand kids take pics from your phone---WATCH THIS! This is truly alarming - please take the time to watch. At the end they'll tell you how to set your phone so you don't run this risk! PLEASE PASS THIS INFO TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO TAKES PICTURES WITH THEIR CELL OR SMART PHONE AND POSTS THEM ONLINE. I want everyone of you to watch this and then be sure to share with all your family and friends. It's REALLY important info, about what your posting things on your cell phones can do TO YOU!!! Too much technology out there these days so be aware... PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THIS VIDEO, AND TAKE THE RECOMMENDED PRECAUTIONS. I had no idea this could happen from taking pictures on the blackberry or cell phone. It's scary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY |
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| Naturegal | Mar 11 2012, 02:49 PM Post #9 |
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Hi peeps We have had a busy but wonderful weekend with our niece and nephew who came to spend the weekend here. They live in Boca Raton on the east coast of Florida and it was only a 3 hour drive for them. We had so much fun, dinner last night with them and friends of ours which we turned into a birthday celebration for our friend who just turned 75. Today we were their guests for brunch on Siesta Key at a great beachside cafe. Yummy omelets with all the trimmings. Then, off to the mall to shop. I always tease my niece and tell her that she is a shopoholic but is she ever a good shopper. I found 2 tops at a store she recommended and out came her coupons, discount card, and I saved 40% Topa - Another beautiful Smilebox presentation and love the sunset photo and surf video. Cheryl - I love going to dog shows. We too used to come home with all the goodie bags. Nice to hear that Jenny's whippets did well. Last week I went to PetSmart to pick up a few treats for Maya and they had the Greyhound rescue group there, I could have adopted all of them, such sweethearts. I just get so sick  when I know the owners of these dogs race the heck out of them at the track here and then don't want them any more, it should be banned.Jill - That is really scary with the phone pics 
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| Harpo516 | Mar 11 2012, 03:27 PM Post #10 |
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 we're home - trying to unpack gear - do laundry - took a nap - here's a few photos from our NJ camping with the boys! click on above image to view ..... BBL |
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| Naturegal | Mar 11 2012, 03:49 PM Post #11 |
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Deb - WOW, super photos and it looks like a good time was had by all. 
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| cdn-cdn | Mar 11 2012, 05:50 PM Post #12 |
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Another enjoyable slideshow, Deb. Foil dinners, wall-to-wall-bunks, a fire-building activity and the salamander were the highlights for me. Lucky boys indeed! Carole, greyhounds are such gentle dogs. How nice to be able to interact with the rescued ones at the pet store. Canada's Got Talent is based in Winnipeg for the show this evening. I wonder if Penny is watching. Carole and Penny, Rick Mercer from 'This Hour has 22 Minutes' was at the dog show. He ran around the ring with somebody's large tan-coloured mastiff, pretending he was the handler who had won. He waved the ribbon in the air all the way around the ring, then did a circuit with a trophy ... the crowd cheered.  Later we saw him with somebody holding a black Puli on his head so that the tangled hair fell over his forehead like a rasta man. He asked somebody for their sunglasses and put them on. Likely someday we'll see this as a segment on his show.
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| ElaineRuth | Mar 11 2012, 07:07 PM Post #13 |
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Toola has passed . . . . . http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/03/05/147974799/toola-an-otter-pioneer-who-raised-orphan-pups-has-died?ft=3&f=111787346&sc=nl&cc=es-20120311 |
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| Deleted User | Mar 11 2012, 07:15 PM Post #14 |
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A VERY GOOD NIGHT - Jill Nice irish music --Topa - Love the smile box, sounds like nice trip - Penny - Pa Norfolk and sadly #4 - Kris - Cheryl - So good you got all the "goodies" - Carole - So nice when you can visit w/family -- Deb - Sounds like the scouts really had a fun time - Elaine Ruth -  Hope to visit my daughter tomorrow. Saw our snowy owl again today at MCR |
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| Artsy Mom | Mar 11 2012, 08:44 PM Post #15 |
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Lily the Black Bear – UPDATE March 11, 2012 Lucky and Honey  Lily Fans dug up videos of Lucky and Honey a couple days before the interactions described in last night’s update. On March 8 at 4 PM, they had an interaction that helps put their interaction of 7 AM on March 10 in perspective. On March 8, Lucky made friendly overtures to Honey, grunting sweetly as he confidently extended his nose to her. She did not reciprocate. She laid back her ears and blew and clacked—repeatedly. Then things got loud as Honey rebuffed Lucky’s advance. How do we explain Lucky’s friendly vocalizations and body language after the tension we’ve seen all winter. Could it be testosterone? Back in the old days, we took blood samples from many males, including 5 samples from late March and early April. Our friends at the Veterans Administration Hospital in St Paul, MN, and at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine analyzed them for testosterone. The 5 samples from late in the denning period showed the second highest testosterone values for the year as you can see at Annual testosterone rhythm in the black bear (Ursus americanus). Could Lucky be perking up and thinking kind thoughts about Honey? Whatever he was thinking, Honey was having none of it. We’ll see if she changes her mind come the mating season in late spring. The picture above was sent by Donna Andrews, who says “I snapped this photo of the sunset with my cell phone while I was checking on the bears at 7:10pm. Lucky left the den willingly this afternoon to go play outside. I believe the high temperature for today was 56 degrees. When I checked the bears at 7:00pm,, Lucky was resting in his old day bed that he used as a cub. It is on the protected side of a very large boulder situated near the far side of the 2.5 acre enclosure. The day bed is shaded by several trees and has a nice flat spot that is snow free already.”  's  Jewel cuddles cub...........................Cub is awake while Jewel sleeps - March 11, 2012 Jewel’s Den Cam is having problems. Bad timing for a breakdown. Record heat is forecast for all this week. Bears around here typically do not respond to early melts before the last week of March. With the Den Cams, we can actually see what they do with this record situation. The technology team is working on it. It's up at the moment and we’re crossing our fingers.  's  No tracks near Lily's den............................Wolf track - March 11, 2012 The big event was last night when Lily was upset about something outside her den for nearly 2 hours. The goal today was to find out what. Sue Mansfield, who is the best tracker I know, went into sleuth mode to find out. She found wolf tracks all over the place, but none within 30 feet of the den. Whatever the wolves were doing, they were not checking out the den—which is in keeping with years of data. Healthy, uninjured bears are usually not closely checked out by wolves, and that includes mothers with noisy nursing cubs that would appear to be vulnerable in above ground nests. Lily’s den is at the edge of a clearcut that has brush and saplings growing up in it. As would be expected, the young vegetation is a deer magnet in winter, and deer tracks were also everywhere, although not by the den. We suspect that the clearcut attracted deer, which attracted wolves. But why did Lily wait until now to show her nervousness?  Fisher tracks - March 11, 2011 There is a confounding factor. The closest set of tracks to the den was a big fisher (Martes pennanti) apparently passing by. The record weight for a big male fisher is only 20 pounds, so it’s possible it came closer to the den without leaving tracks if there was a crust on the snow last night. Would a passing fisher upset Lily for over 2 hours? From the abundance of wolf tracks, they may have been a more persistent presence, although always at a distance.  Lily in den - March 11, 2012 Her possibly being upset about wolves, reminds Lynn of a night he spent with Terri and her cubs some years ago. Terri and her cubs were trying to sleep. A hundred yards or so away, a pack of wolves was dismantling a deer carcass they had found. Lynn had photographed the carcass earlier when Terri found it and dragged it into the bushes. She spent a little time on it, but there wasn’t much meat left, and red meat is not high on the black bear’s list of preferred foods. She shortly continued on eating young, emerging vegetation. That night, when the wolves found it, Terri knew. The wolf rustlings were faint but were enough for Terri’s big ears, and rustling sounds are what black bears key in on. For a couple hours, as Lynn remembers it without digging out the old notes, she was intermittently up on her hind feet standing against the big tree by her bed, slapping the tree, blowing, and clacking her teeth. She would subside for awhile, walk toward the disturbance, return grunting to her cubs, and then turn her attention toward the wolves and continue her agonistic displays. By the time it started to get light, the wolves were gone and Terri was calm. So we do know that distant wolves can disturb a bear. We were glad to find that nothing was really wrong at the den. A video of Lily's reaction last night so whatever it was is posted here. To continue the discussion about our research methods, the big difference between the old methods and our trust-based methods is that now we can see the bears, summer and winter, and get answers to the many questions that plagued us in the old days. Tomorrow is the legislative committee hearing of the bill to make the black bear the Minnesota State Mammal. The bill has two numbers. It is Minnesota Senate File 1905 and Minnesota House File 2144. Teacher Dana Coleman’s first grade and second grade students will be there to testify. We’re crossing our fingers. This would be good for black bears and is the result of a lot of work by Dana, her students, and Lily Fans who have contacted their Minnesota Legislators, and supportive legislators. There have been many attempts to select a Minnesota State Mammal. Maybe it takes a group of dedicated students inspired by Lily and family to make it happen. Thank you for all you do. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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