Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to IWS Eagle Forum. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Chat - Wednesday, April 25, 2012; All for the love of our eagles
Topic Started: Apr 25 2012, 02:47 AM (843 Views)
jeannec
Member Avatar
Eagle Guardian
So I am going to visit Santa Cruz Island - should i go to Scorpion Anchorage or Prisoner's Harbor? The Island Packer lady suggested Prisoner's Harbor.


Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Artsy Mom
Member Avatar
Eagle Guardian
Ashbury Woods Nature Centre in Erie PA

Posted Image

Asbury Woods Nature Center is a state-of-the-art regional nature center with over 205 acres and 4.5 miles of hiking trails. The Center is free and open to the public year-round.

While retaining its original cottage look and hometown nature center feel, today’s Asbury Woods Nature Center is a model of sustainable design with a focus on energy conservation. All elements of the Center’s design are based on the following 4 E’s: Environment impact, Economic value, Experience for the visitor and Educational value. Another feature is the 4,500 square foot vegetative “green” roof that visitors see as they enter the building.

Explore Ashbury Nature Center

Click here for our Green Building Booklet (pdf) for more information about our building.


This place looks like a must see to me...all kinds of events happening all the time. They even have a maple sugaring shack :Yum: :Yum:
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
KLJinOz
Member Avatar
Eagle Guardian
Absolutely beautiful, heartfelt NAC presentation today Jeanne. :)^ :><: <3

Last years visit to LA, we too went to Bubba's. Bob got VERY sick from the food. I had to call the Hotel Dr, he charged over $500 to visit but Bob was at high fever. He was on the verge of being taken to the hospital because he was delirious with fever, poor guy. He missed going to Lake Casitas too.

Bob took me out to dinner last night for ANZAC day. He says he father wouldve been appalled as we went to a Japanese Restaurant. It was very good but the restaurant was cold and I was shivering despite a merino wool top. The wait staff noticed it and re-tabled us close to a heater and brought me warm water. We had adame beans, salmon sushi, steamed pork dumplings for appetizers, BBQ beef and garlic chicken with LOTS of onions & red/green bell peppers accompanied by warm saki (I only had a few sips, not for me). I was surprised there was no rice served with the meal. Bob says its because that is peasant food. Arigato!

Love batik work Penny, very creative designs

Thanks to all for the Eagleland updates
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
jeannec
Member Avatar
Eagle Guardian
You know the Royal Couple of A49 Cruz and A-64 Spirit,
But how about these other new wannabe parents?


Posted Image

Posted Image

Click below to find out how you can keep the progress going!

NEST ADOPTION CHALLENGE INFORMATION:

http://w11.zetaboards.com/IWS_Eagle_Forum/single/?p=8126117&t=7720720//



* (According to Dr. Sharpe, the one nesting eagle believed to be from the mainland is the male of the Carl's nest of Santa Cruz)


Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
jeannec
Member Avatar
Eagle Guardian
Thank you Ozzie!!!


Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Artsy Mom
Member Avatar
Eagle Guardian
Lily the Black Bear – UPDATE April 25, 2012

Good Bears


Posted Image :clk:
Cub peeks over Juliet - April 25, 2012

With newspaper articles warning people about bears showing up around Duluth, the radio-collared bears are setting good examples. Lily and Faith are deep in the woods foraging for natural foods. The same is true for her closest kin—June and her yearlings and Jewel and her cubs. Long ago, these and other bears we’ve studied over the decades showed that it is not habituation and food-conditioning that makes “nuisance” bears, it’s hunger. And when bears are hungry due to scarce food in the woods, there are almost always snacks available from bird feeders, garbage cans, and other human sources.

Posted Image :clk:
Juliet and cubs bedded by white pine - April 25, 2012

People have moved into bear habitat all over the US. Homes are part of the black bear environment. What bears eat depends on the alternatives. When food is scarce in the woods, bears don’t have to be taught that bird feeders and garbage cans contain food. They just follow their noses. Food can lead bears into trouble or out of it. They generally prefer natural foods, but when those foods are scarce they still want to eat.

Posted Image :clk:
Juliet's cub scratching chin with hind foot - April 25, 2012

One of the things we are studying is what if any problems exist where people welcome hungry bears with supplementary food that diverts them from problem areas. The answer is fewer problems. Lily and Faith paid a visit to a feeding station a couple days ago. Now they are a mile away pursuing natural foods. By comparison, Jo and Victoria live where there is no welcome area with supplemental food. They spend most of their time out in the woods, but checked out bird feeders last evening. Without a feeding station, they did what bears across the country do when they are hungry—go from house to house seeing what is available. Their fate depends upon the attitudes people in those houses have toward bears.

Posted Image :clk:
Juliet's cub - April 25, 2012

Where there is a feeding station, hungry bears are much less likely to go house to house. That’s why the records for this area show 80% lower nuisance problems than statewide. That’s why in a previous study diversionary feeding reduced problems 88%. In the year 2007— when a near absence of food was leading to many house break-ins— diversionary feeding around Lake Tahoe drastically reduced the problems. Nothing is foolproof, of course, but the 50-year history of feeding stations and reduced problems in this area says a lot. In this year when early blooms may possibly have been hurt by late frosts, the feeding stations might be put to an unusual test in preventing problems.

Lily Fans are asking if 9-year-old Colleen and 12-year-old Donna and their yearlings made it through hunting season. We haven’t mentioned them lately because no one has seen them and we don’t know what they’re doing.

We do know that Donna and her yearlings made it through hunting season and the winter. We lucked out last fall and found Donna and her yearlings in an old den we checked. We gave her a radio-collar, but she left it at the den when she emerged. They were good enough to pose for our trail cam before leaving the den area. We’re waiting for her to be seen so we can get another collar on her.

Posted Image :clk:
Deadman Lake - April 24, 2012

Colleen is a mystery. In the fall of 2010, she and her radio-signal disappeared. In the summer of 2011, she was spotted with 2 male cubs and no radio-collar. She evidently had removed her radio-collar over winter like many bears do. We put another radio-collar on her that summer (2011). That fall (last fall), she and her signal disappeared again. We fully expect her to be seen one of these days with her 2 yearlings. Our best guess is that she has a deep, rock den where she spent the last 2 winters and that she managed to remove her radio-collars in the den each winter. We want to radio-track her and get GPS locations from her this fall in hopes of locating that den, although the chances of her using it 3 years in a row are slim.

Posted Image :clk:
Muskrat swimming in Deadman Lake - April 24, 2012

Yesterday morning was to be treasured just for the beauty of the morning and the views of nature. We’re monitoring when birds arrive and the vegetation leafs out and flowers in this unusual year. At dawn, the wind was calm, the lakes were glassy, and the sun was golden. Loons were calling, beavers and muskrats were swimming, and ducks were diving for food in the mist. The phoebe pair arrived—on time despite the early spring. A beautiful morning.

Posted Image
Sue with Braveheart's collar - April 25, 2012

Today it rained and Braveheart dropped her radio-collar. We liked yesterday better.

Bears in the News: What should we believe? Today, 2 polar bear items arrived in the mail—a 2011 book on polar bears by one of the top experts in the world and Science Magazine with a polar bear picture on the cover. The book said polar bears split from brown bears 150,000 years ago. The magazine said new evidence from “nuclear genomic sequences reveal that polar bears are an old and distinct bear lineage” that arose 600,000 years ago. It said that polar bears have survived a number of warm phases and glacial cycles but that low genetic diversity indicates these climate conditions may have been the cause of genetic bottlenecks.

Thank you for all you do.

—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
circlescribe
Member Avatar
Eagle Guardian
Jeanne, I don't know Scorpion Anchorage but the Limuw Memorial trip went to Prisoner's Harbor from which we walked to the PH nest area. The Island Packer lady probably has a good suggestion. :ok:

Ozzie, thanks for the Raven article link. They're amazing Birds! We knew a Crow we had rescued and who after a while went to a Bird sanctuary. He had so bonded with Ed that every time we went to visit over several years he would start calling out as soon as he heard Ed's voice calling his name before he was even in sight! :wub:
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
« Previous Topic · Daily Chat · Next Topic »
Add Reply