Hello Rob!

** On Saturday 10.05.25 - 01:07, Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL:

But I've gotten used to seeing them here. They have Goosey
Daycare where, once the goslings are swimming around well,
you'll see one Mother Goose with 15 or 20 of them
following her so you know that they don't all belong to
that one female. They say 2 to 8 eggs for one nest but I'd
say that 3 or 4 would be most common.

Never knew about their Goosey Daycare system. I'll have to
watch for that. I usually have a couple of pairs of geese on
my little lake, but I don't think I've ever seen more than 8 or
10 little ones following a parent. I have seen fewer and
fewer ones with the same pair over time though. I've imagined
that maybe the snapping turtles grab them from below.

At the moment, as I type this, the Whippoorwills are
making a heck of a racket outside. They are quite loud and
generally do their calling starting at about midnight.

I get more noise from Loons around 4-5a.

But then the Peepers are a much more consistent vocal
contributor here. When the peepers emerge, I know that
blackflies and mosquitoes emerge a week to a few days later.

This year seems different though. The first night that the
Peepers started here was on Apr 23. But sofar, no blackflies
nearly 2 wks later.


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But I've gotten used to seeing them here. They have Goosey
Daycare where, once the goslings are swimming around well,
you'll see one Mother Goose with 15 or 20 of them
following her so you know that they don't all belong to
that one female. They say 2 to 8 eggs for one nest but I'd
say that 3 or 4 would be most common.

Never knew about their Goosey Daycare system. I'll have to

>watch for that. I usually have a couple of pairs of geese on
>my little lake, but I don't think I've ever seen more than 8 or
>10 little ones following a parent. I have seen fewer and
>fewer ones with the same pair over time though. I've imagined
>that maybe the snapping turtles grab them from below.

I'm sure the bigger Turtles are a possibility. Here, being part
of the huge Georgian Bay and surrounding lakes area, we have a
lot of very big fish and a Musky will take baby ducks and geese,
probably more effectively than a turtle could manage it.
I've seen fishing lures that are made to look like baby ducks,
two little spinners on the bottom to look like swimming feet.

When the peepers emerge, I know that

>blackflies and mosquitoes emerge a week to a few days later.

This year seems different though. The first night that the

>Peepers started here was on Apr 23. But sofar, no blackflies
>nearly 2 wks later.

Lucky you.. I've been ducking black flies here for probably a week.
I also see the new nests forming for Tent Caterpillars which I'll
have to take care of to keep them from totally stripping some of
the smaller bushes, which can sometimes kill them.
(The bushes, not the caterpillars..) B)

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Hello Rob!

** On Wednesday 28.05.25 - 01:54, Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL:

..but black flies are well known for that. Plus they seem
to like getting between your skin and some cloth as if
they like the pressure against their backs to help them
dig into you, rather than them just being smart enough to
hide there.

..The place I find them biting me is usually if I'm
wearing a hat, they will get under the band a bit. I was
outside for over an hour talking to a neighbour the other
day and there were not many Black Flies around, but later
I found half a dozen bites along my forehead, and that was
the only area I got bit.

Maybe the solution is no clothes and no hat! :D

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..The place I find them biting me is usually if I'm
wearing a hat, they will get under the band a bit.

Maybe the solution is no clothes and no hat! :D

Give it a try and let me know how it works out.. B)

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Hello Rob!

** On Sunday 01.06.25 - 01:20, Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL:

[...] he found a black bear in the room eating the food
out of the dog's bowl.

The chicken dog didn't so much as bark, although he didn't
look happy about it. Again, that was right in town. Out
where I am you expect things like that and protect
yourself better. You only make the mistake of leaving your
garbage in the car overnight to take to the dump the next
morning once.. B)

A neighbour about .5km away to the East of my property has had
bears visit her house/property in recent weeks. She keeps
chickens. The bear[s] broke through the chicken shed, killed
most of them, and ransacked the chicken feed. They even
attempted to rip off the rear fender/bumper of her car - she
still still had a few extra bags of chicken feed in the trunk.
The bear[s] also attempted to scratch apart the front door of
her house a couple days ago.

It's bear hunting season right now (may1 - june15) ..and
something is helping to kill it. They bated the area with honey
and molasses containers. A friend is planning to stay by with
a gun.

Bear citings have also been made less than 1km away to the West
of my property. I have a neighbor to my West about 300m away
that has some chickens too. So.. my property is probably used
as a convenient path.

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August Abolins wrote to Rob Mccart <=-

It's bear hunting season right now (may1 - june15) ..and
something is helping to kill it. They bated the area with honey
and molasses containers. A friend is planning to stay by with
a gun.

Now I have an image of someone setting up a killzone for Winnie the
Pooh. THAT won't go away any time soon.




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Hello Kurt!

** On Monday 02.06.25 - 07:30, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

Now I have an image of someone setting up a killzone for
Winnie the Pooh. THAT won't go away any time soon.

This version is probably no toy-size Pooh bear. Add 300lbs,
and really serious claws that can rip open doors. You may just
like to shoot that version too. ;)


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Hello August!

[...] he found a black bear in the room eating the food
out of the dog's bowl.

A neighbour about .5km away to the East of my property has had

>bears visit her house/property in recent weeks. She keeps
>chickens. The bear[s] broke through the chicken shed, killed
>most of them, and ransacked the chicken feed. They even
>attempted to rip off the rear fender/bumper of her car - she
>still still had a few extra bags of chicken feed in the trunk.
>The bear[s] also attempted to scratch apart the front door of
>her house a couple days ago.

Definitely not good, and once they associate your house with
food, they usually keep coming back. A close friend of mine
was having problems with bears tearing bird feeders out of the
trees at his place. He was a big hunting fan and when this
happened outside of hunting season, he called the ministry but
they said there was nothing they could do about that, likely
meaning the problem was trivil in their opinion..

He told them that, by law, he could shoot a 'nuisance' bear at
any time. They argued that they didn't think he had grounds but
he ended up over the next few years shooting at least 3, maybe 4,
bears at his place. He wasn't even into hunting bears for meat.
He had a good sized property and owned a front end loader and
was just burying them on the property.

My thought would have been to contact aboriginal groups in
the area to see if they wanted them, but since he was a status
aboriginal (living off of the reservation) I suppose he knew
whether that would be of interest to them or not..

Bear citings have also been made less than 1km away to the West

>of my property. I have a neighbor to my West about 300m away
>that has some chickens too. So.. my property is probably used
>as a convenient path.

Yes, our biggest issue here is that there are large berry patches
around this area so there are often bears around 'grazing' in those.
More than once they have showed up while one of us was out picking
the Blackberries, Rasberries and Blueberries ourselves..

Several times I've run into a bear when jogging down the wooded
one lane road that comes in here. Since none of us has actually
been chased or attacked I guess we just try to avoid them but are
not overly frightened of them. Closest I came was running around
a blind curve and finding myself about 10 feet from a mother bear
with a cub. She reared up on her hind legs which had me worried
for a minute, but I just stopped and held my arms out wide to try
to appear bigger, (Arms Up!.. Ha) and after a minute she dropped
back down and headed off into the woods with the cub following..

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Hello Rob!

** On Tuesday 03.06.25 - 01:22, Rob Mccart wrote to me:

Definitely not good, and once they associate your house with
food, they usually keep coming back.

Yep, that is apparently what happend. The owner was noticing
visits increasing in frequency and more and more attempts to
break open doors.

Anyway.. UPDATE. The bear has been shot, apparently some time
in the late evening of June 1. Female. Known to have had
older cubs tagging along.

[..] Closest I came was running around a blind curve and
finding myself about 10 feet from a mother bear with a
cub. She reared up on her hind legs which had me worried
for a minute, but I just stopped and held my arms out wide
to try to appear bigger, (Arms Up!.. Ha) and after a
minute she dropped back down and headed off into the woods
with the cub following..

Wow.. 10ft is pretty darn close!

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August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Now I have an image of someone setting up a killzone for
Winnie the Pooh. THAT won't go away any time soon.

This version is probably no toy-size Pooh bear. Add 300lbs,
and really serious claws that can rip open doors. You may just
like to shoot that version too. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh:_Blood_and_Honey

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British independent slasher
film produced, directed, written, and edited by Rhys Frake-Waterfield.
The first installment of The Twisted Childhood Universe,[5] it is a
horror parody[6][7][8] of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's
Winnie-the-Pooh books and stars Craig David Dowsett as the titular
character, and Chris Cordell as Piglet, with Amber Doig-Thorne, Nikolai
Leon, Maria Taylor, Natasha Rose Mills, and Danielle Ronald in
supporting roles. It follows Pooh and Piglet, who have become feral
murderers, as they terrorise a group of young university women and
Christopher Robin when he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood five years
after leaving for college.



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Hi August

Anyway.. UPDATE. The bear has been shot, apparently some time

>in the late evening of June 1. Female. Known to have had
>older cubs tagging along.

Yes, like with most animals, they just cause bigger problems
in time if you can't disourage them early on..

[..] Closest I came was running around a blind curve and
finding myself about 10 feet from a mother bear with a
cub. She reared up on her hind legs which had me worried
for a minute, but I just stopped and held my arms out wide
to try to appear bigger, (Arms Up!.. Ha) and after a
minute she dropped back down and headed off into the woods
with the cub following..

Wow.. 10ft is pretty darn close!

Yes, something like that. I almost said 15ft but thinking back
on it that seemed too much..

Another time I was walking down the same road and I tend to keep
my eyes on the ground to avoid rattlesnakes or stepping in
something I don't want to step in.. and I noticed ahead of me
a lot of small broken branches on the road under a wild cherry
tree. Just as I looked up to try to figure out what caused that
a small (250 lbs?) yearling bear, in a bit of a panic over me
being so close, lost his grip and fell out of the tree landing
almost on top of me.

That was exciting but he just jumped up and ran off as fast as
his legs would carry him into the woods so there was never the
worry that it might decide to attack.

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Hello Kurt!

** On Wednesday 04.06.25 - 17:13, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh:_Blood_and_Honey

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British independent slasher film produced, directed, written, and edited by Rhys Frake-Waterfield.

Oh.. THAT Pooh! That's different, for sure. Never heard of
it.

Not much into slasher films, myself.

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Hello Rob!

** On Thursday 05.06.25 - 01:13, Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

Yes, like with most animals, they just cause bigger
problems in time if you can't disourage them early on..

Maybe no shooting was necessary! ..Just a good victorian boxer:

https://kolico.ca/tmp/bbb-photo_2025-06-07_22-06-01.jpg

Another time I was walking down the same road [...] a
small (250 lbs?) yearling bear, in a bit of a panic over
me being so close, lost his grip and fell out of the tree
landing almost on top of me.

That was exciting but he just jumped up and ran off as
fast as his legs would carry him into the woods so there
was never the worry that it might decide to attack.

Good thing bears are naturally cautious and prefer to be alone.

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Hi August

Yes, like with most animals, they just cause bigger
problems in time if you can't disourage them early on..

Maybe no shooting was necessary! ..Just a good victorian boxer:

https://kolico.ca/tmp/bbb-photo_2025-06-07_22-06-01.jpg

Ha.. Maybe that's a possible solution if the bear was that small.. B)

Another time I was walking down the same road [...] a
small (250 lbs?) yearling bear, in a bit of a panic over
me being so close, lost his grip and fell out of the tree
landing almost on top of me.

That was exciting but he just jumped up and ran off as
fast as his legs would carry him into the woods so there
was never the worry that it might decide to attack.

Good thing bears are naturally cautious and prefer to be alone.

Non-confrontational anyways. They don't avoid places with lots of
humans around but are more likely to prowl around when the people
are away or asleep or at least indoors. We've had a number of
encounters in the middle of the day, but I guess by mid summer when
there are a lot more people around they stay further away. I just
happen to be here at times when there's almost no one else around,
before the cottagers and renters come up on vacation.

Of course more people means more garbage around or even dummies
feeding them, especially when it's tourists rather than property
owners who usually know better..

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