Watching Wildlife on Big Screen

River... ice

We have been enjoying a reality show with new episodes every day. Whenever we are sitting down for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, our wild neighbours are continuing their own business out there: Weasels bouncing about, grouses eating berries along the trail, grey jays stashing and retrieving food, redpolls flocking all over birches, pine grosbeaks hanging heavily on highbush cranberry bushes, the squirrels doing the squirrel thing (keenly observed by Lance), even a black bear and her cub travelled past our big living room window in the summer. All that takes place in front of the magnificent backdrop of snow covered mountain peaks and a river that carries more and more ice every day.


Food stash (possibly from Grey Jays) in abandoned small-bird nest


Bear track

And that is not all: with the freshly fallen snow, we can read up on what the shyer neighbours have been up to: yesterday, Elias found the tracks of a grizzly bear who was looking for a den, we see rabbit tracks all over the forest, and fox foot prints gave that animal's nightly presence away.

A few days ago, the full moon was rising from behind the mountains, casting a street of light across the water. That is when we realized that through our big living room window, we are looking at an ever changing scenery inhabited by the most wondrous creatures.

Technical details: the boat is out and Elias built a porch (yeah!).

Boat - being pulled out of the water


Lance posing on the new porch