NOAA's Arctic Report Card released yesterday with continuing bad news. Anchorage Daily News used a 2024 image of 3 polar bears on Cooper Island. Their predation on nestlings caused a complete nesting failure for the Black Guillemot colony. Happened again in 2025. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Charles Wohlforth and Loren Holmes ‬won an award for their piece on the 2024 breeding season on Cooper Island. ‪@lorenholmes.bsky.social bestofthewestcontest.org/2025-contest... Read the story here tinyurl.com/bearnestcase an account of how it was written here authorcollaborator.com/hungry-polar...

2095 The Bainbridge Island Museum of A.I. Art presents: 'Flowers of Gaza, Remembering the Palestinian Genocide' June 4 - June 5

For residents of Ontario, and maybe elsewhere in Canada, the Birdman of Cooper Island, by Kevin McMahon of Primitive Entertainment is now streaming on the TVO website www.tvo.org/series-docs Hoping it will be available in the U.S. in early 2025

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR One of the most famous, or infamous of Shakespeare's stage directions and also appropriate for the end of the 50th field season studying Mandt's Black Guillemots on Cooper Island and monitoring a melting Arctic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLJ...