About two weeks have passed since the start of 2011, and most of the brown bears in the animal barn are sleeping.

I can't show you the situation because I refrained from taking pictures of the bears at the moment so as not to stimulate the brown bears who have started to sleep too much, but today the brown bears seemed to be sleeping calmly and preparing their beds by fiddling with straw a little.

Today, we are very busy removing the snow that has fallen since last night, and we are clearing the roof of the animal barn, but if we do not do this properly, the melted snow will flow into the animal house and wet the precious bedding of the brown bears. Also, you can see what looks like a silver T-shaped tube at the foot of the photo, which is a ventilation opening, and it plays an important role such as listening to the breathing of sleeping brown bears and adding straw, so it is difficult to get buried in the snow, so I remove snow frequently.

When the snow removal was over and the bears were sleeping, the warm sunlight came in in the extreme cold, and when it was a little softer, the goats Yuki (photo, left) and Atsuko (photo, right) came to check on the situation.

Spring is still a long way off, but the bears at Bear Mountain are steadily building up strength for < (^^) 2011 season>