First of all critter cam awesomeness. This camera was set up right along our Baptism ski trails (further out from campus by our forest ecology sites), check out the grooves for skiing. Also check out that gigantic wolf walking right in between the grooves. We've been seeing tracks (this is where Christina and I saw them) as well as big piles of scat (poo) and We're all excited we got the culprit on camera.
It's a boreal owl irruption year! Okay so this is really exciting. People are flying from around the country to see these owls. An irruption year means that for some reason resources (food) is low farther north and these guys are coming farther south this year. For some it's on a cycle, so for boreal owls it's about every 4 years, for others it's not as regular. Other owls that come further south include great gray owls and snowy owls, I've yet to see them but I will be looking. This guy was sitting on a maple tree right by the office. How cute is he??
This is our ski chalet for our Raven Lake ski trails. This past weekend some members were here and Robyn and I volunteered to help set up a candlelight ski for them.
Basically we just lit all the candles (fake candles so flipped the switches) and it was absolutely magical. So magical my camera could not catch the amazingness, but imagine your way being lit by the next bag down the trail and you're feet just following the grooves. So great.
Haven't given you pics of these two recently. Elcie laid an egg yesterday. She's past her egg laying prime so it actually broke and it was the first she's laid in months.
Thistle was being....Thistle...passed out in his crate.
Below are just some pretty snow scenes...
And here are some shots from my winter survival class yesterday. I had eighth graders so they actually built some decent shelters and worked hard for their fires. The goal is to boil snow for hot cocoa and they succeeded.
No comments:
Post a Comment