May 13, 2006

• For  spinksy:  today’s sunrise was at 5:15; sunset at 10:37.

  For  bodiddly:  I’m with you on hoping I get healthier.  I have good days and bad days.  The chronic illness I have, ME/CFIDS,
  is extremely debilitating but only rarely fatal.  Yesterday, I got
  about a quarter of my houseplants watered.  Today I’ll try for
  more.

  Greyfox alerted me to a story in the Anchorage paper about two
  filmmakers from the UK, doing a documentary on the city’s wildlife:

  In a half-dozen trips since last May, the two
  Brits have shot moose eating pumpkins and a moose trying to mate with a
  set of hooded mailboxes.

  The installation had four legs and stood 6 feet tall. “Broadly speaking, it had the right elements of the female,” Brown said.

  They’ve caught a beaver family living in an
  East Anchorage lake ringed with homes. A huge flock of ducks wintering
  over in College Gate on a section of creek that does not freeze. A
  group of ravens “having a go” at an eagle at the Dimond Center.

  But they won’t feel they’re finished until
  they collect more footage of the beavers at Reflection Lake with their
  spring young and until they’ve taped newborn moose calves. They would
  die for the chance to videotape a moose giving birth.

  Nor have they shot a brown bear — not yet.
  That may change when the salmon return to the city streams. Next month,
  Brown and Drake plan to install a remote motion-sensing camera at a
  likely location.

  They had no wolf until Friday when they
  learned that the remote camera set up three months ago at the Hiland
  Road landfill nabbed a gray wolf prowling the edges.

  More at adn.com.

  

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