Hey guys. Today we watched a bear drag a seal across the ice for a mile or so! He was being pursued by several other bears, all wanting to feast on this treat. There was quite a bit of action! A bigger bear stole the kill, then an even bigger bear stole it again. Although it was way off in the distance, the viewing was awesome! Once the other bears moved away from the kill, we drove up close and got look at the blood covered and happy bear.. Dave. [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone! I'm up near James Bay, a few hundred kilometers south east from Dave in Churchill! My work has taken me to this pretty little place on an island in the middle of the Moose River and just a boat ride away from Moosonee where my plane landed. The Moose River drains into the James Bay. The landscape is the Hudson's Bay Lowlands and muskeg forests. The island itself and the neighbouring islands are prone to erosion because of the sandy, silty ground. Many fossils are found up here, as is the odd diamond. The diamond mine, De Beers, is [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from a rainy Churchill! All the ice has gone again! The temperature rose and melted it all, so the bears are happy just to sit tight and wait a bit longer.. I was talking to a guy from Manitoba Conservation as well as a couple of the Parks Canada guides, and they were saying that a lot of the bears this year are still down close to the Manitoba/Ontario border and that they still have a lot of body mass so they don't seem to have the urge to migrate north? It's an interesting theory, and there may be [View Full Entry]

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Hey Guys. More and more bears are moving through the area every day and they are getting hungrier as well as more curious! We have had a couple of big male bears trying to bite their way in. Tearing away at the underside of the lodge and ripping off panels and fittings! We now have Buggy 1 up and running and on the tundra! Buggy 1 is operated by Polar Bears International and is used for research and live broadcasts, it is the only buggy on the tundra that picks up high speed internet! I am in the lodge dining room [View Full Entry]

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Hi guys. I just wanted to share some pictures of abandoned buildings. Throughout the summer George and I have been exploring some of the uglier parts of Churchill too! During the 50s and 60s Churchill had an American navy base and the population bustled with over 5500 (today it's 850). Most of the buildings were destroyed, as the Americans didn't want to leave a functioning base, just in case the Russians decided to come over. A few building were used for a few more years before they were deserted and left for the elements to take their toll. Every town has [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys! I thought I would try and update the blog fairly frequently, as there are many bears around, and I am sure you would all like to see some of the action? Winter has arrived... We had our first winter storm, and the land and lakes are now frozen in time. There is actually sea-ice forming around the shoreline, something we don't normally see until very late October or early November! I have my fingers crossed for an early freeze up, it would hopefully do wonders to our bears! During the last few days we have had a couple of [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys. The highlight of the week this week was during a trip to the dump!!! It's not uncommon to see a big, dirty polar bear rummaging through the food scraps at the town dump, but I was super excited to see a wolverine! He (or she) was all straggly, gnarly and grumpy looking, and although the backdrop of plastic garbage bags and piles of Pampers wasn't visually inspiring, it was a very powerful experience! My first ever wolverine. So cool! Buggy 17 got into a wee bit of trouble out on the tidal flats near Polar Bear Point. The driver [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys! The Ithaca sits on a bed of gravel on a shallow tidal flat off the Manitoba coast about 18 km east of Churchill. It is about a 1 km hike at low tide to get out there, so George and I decided we would go and check it out. We headed out with the tide, getting our feet wet as we marched across the tidewater pools, carrying guns of course as there is always a chance of seeing nanuq. It was super cool! Climbing over the massive engine, to get to the boiler room so that we could climb [View Full Entry]

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Hi folks! The north wind has been howling for a couple of days now. It is starting to feel like fall, but somehow the temperatures are struggling to get below freezing? Not that I mind, as I have a lot of work to do out on the tundra, I could do with a couple more weeks of warm (Relative for the time of year) weather. Our mobile lodge has been hauled out to the wild and barren, windswept and bleak Polar Bear Point, and we've already had a group of 'campers'. Polar Bears International (PBI) had a group of students staying [View Full Entry]

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Well, hello! Everyone! Dave has certainly left us with some amazing visuals of the Polar Bear and Beluga capital of the world, Churchill, Manitoba. So just to balance out the news coverage, I have taken a few photos of Sioux Lookout (our headquarters) where I am holding the fort with Lilah, our 19 year old cat. When the lupins come out, boy do they bloom! And I just got the tail end of the blooming window of opportunity, back in July. Altho a wet summer was had by all, we are having the most fabulous September ever! I am still picking [View Full Entry]

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