Bear Cubs That Is!

We had 2 ophaned black bear cubs brought to our attention today and my work partner went and recover them this afternoon.

The small female mother bear picked a very poor spot for a den, she burrowed into the side of a ditch bank adjacent to a rural road. This winter the private forest beyond the ditch was logged, this activity combined with the recent high spring run-off water in the ditch, caused the mother to vacate the den early. Wolves detected the den and were seen digging at it, which drew the attention of the local people in the area. Tracks in the snow indicated that the mother bear had not been to the site in two days; she may have been scared off, hit on the road by a vehicle or predated by the wolves.

The bear cubs were quite weak when first captured but with some warmth (we had a snowstorm here today) and food (pablum) they are recovering nicely.

So the 2 five pound balls-of-fur (caked in mud) are destined to take a 300 mile roadtrip with me tomorrow to a wildlife rehabilitation centre, where they will be raised with limited human contact until they are old enough to release back into the bush.

Cool stuff and my daughters have a really, neat story to tell at school on Monday!

Mike

really cool to hear

good work..the sort of out come i like to hear for a change..

i demand adorable chibi-ursine imagery.

Hi Erik,

I got a problem. My son took the good family digital camera with him to a shooting competition this weekend, all we had at home was an old HP camera that I do not have the computer attachment cord for. I may be able to get the pictures put on a disc at WalMart and then load it on to the computer that way.

Erik, here's the deal though, I have never downloaded a picture to the web before, I will need detailed instruction on how to do this, O.K. (I am a member of the computer challenged generation)?

I did take some good pictures though. Also it will have to be in about a week because I am in Southern Ontario teaching a course right now.

I delivered the 2 bear cubs to the Rehab. centre this afternoon, they overwintered an amazing 87 bear cubs from last year that will be released back into the wild this year. The 2 cubs we had will be reintroduced in summer 2009.

Mike

ok image uploading instructions:

go to http://photobucket.com/ and create an account, it's free and no spam is involved.

transfer to pictures from your camera's memory card to your desktop

open your photobucket album.

on the right side of the page is the area to select the uploaded image.

click the Browse button next to one of the blank spaces.

find and select the picture you want to upload.

click OK.

beneath the picture links, there is a large blue button that says Upload. Push it.

your picture should appear as a thumbnail on the album page. beneath it are several URLs.
one is labeled IMG CODE. Copy that one and paste it in your reply. the image should appear in your post.

Thanks Erik,

I will give this a try next weekend when I get home. If it works I will also do a couple kit reviews I have held off on posting because they are just not as good without pictures.

Mike

It as only taken me a little over 2 months to figure out this digatal camera thing (I think).

Attached below should be the pictures of my 2 daughters and the 2 bear cubs rescued this spring (I hope this works).







Big THANK YOU to Erik_B for walking me through the steps to post these pictures.

Mike

You win the "awwwww!" contest.

Wild, and thanks for the Pics!

What is the status of the two bear cubs now? Where are they? etc

Thanks!