E's+Journal

Eileen

Today I am just sitting here in the snow in my little canoe. In the night rabbits ,owls ,wolverines ,weasels ,mice, moose and wolves come up to me and either sniff me or lick me. I really kind of like that because they keep me company. I hope I go to all the great lakes.

Day 4 The snow has melted showing a big brook. My canoe has slipped in to it, I have started my journey. I’ve landed in a beavers pond. I see a Buck Deer. He has knocked off his horn on a tree. There are lots and lots of beavers and fish .I spot a muskrat and a porcupine. I loved it when the Buck Deer knocked off his horn. It was cool! I wonder how i will get to a different place.

Day 5 I am in a river,there is lots of ice and logs.Lots of trees are around the river.My little canoe is going **crazy**! =I am scared.A saw is about to chop me in half!Yea!A lumberjack just saved me from the saw!I have been put on a shelf.I am going to be taken to the lumberjack's house.They are laughing at me about how I came here.He is reading the message that is on the bottom of my canoe!But I'm thinking will the little boy cry if he will put me back in the river?Good I heard he is not going to tell him at all!Yea! he's putting me back in the river!That was exiting!= = = =This is boring I am just sitting here in my little canoe with all of this junk.Oh look!The river is widening into Lake Superior!It has many islands. Now there is no land at all.Oh my gosh! I am jumping out and into the water! This fish is trying yo eat me! Good thing he found out that I'm not food;he just swam away.A bird has landed on me!He is tipping me over half way! Fish are swimming under me and birds are flying over me and ships are passing by me.I am just sitting in one place. Now I am going west!I am going to the sea!= = = = = = = = = =I am in thunder bay. ships are turning the water green. They are tipping me over. There are lots of buildings. Ships that are passing me have grain in them.=

=DAY 10= = = =There are lots of butterflies and dragonflies. Ducks are trying to catch bugs. woodpeckers are making lots of noises. A moose and here baby jumped in the water to get off flies. A bull moose is eating lily pads and roots near by. Squirrels and chipmunks are chattering.=



=**RESEARCH ON BLACK BEARS THAT LIVE NEAR THE GREAT LAKES.**= Black bears sometimes move to bigger places and feed on pear cactuses. They like corn and oak trees too. Some black bears live in the mountains. But really the black bears that live in the mountains live in oaks. Swampy areas are good refuge.Lots of redwood is good overstory.Wet Meadows are inportant nonforested places.Black bears like tree bone fruites in the summer.They like hard and soft mast together in the fall.They will eat insects and beetles enytime.During winter [when they hibernate] they loose wheit.When spring comes they also have a chois to eat berries. They eat nuts and acorns during the fall to.