Mike Valentini, our friend who lives at the end of the Gunflint Trail, had a lucky encounter with a lynx this week.

1/18/14 – Mike Valentini, our friend who lives at the end of the Gunflint Trail, had a lucky encounter with a lynx this week.

It’s always a treat to see a lynx. Photo by Michael Valentini.

…but to see a lynx chasing its lunch is amazing! Photo by Michael Valentini.

Michael reported that the squirrel got away, but the lynx’ agility in the tree was phenomenal. Photo by Mike Valentini.
Tom Sonnek is a long-time Sawbill canoeist. Tom sent a link to this video on the Ugly Stik website highlighting his fishing adventures on Sawbill Lake.
Steve Gendron is another avid Sawbill visitor who sent along this note and picture:

Hello Sawbillians. Enclosed is a photo of a black bear that I made of chicken wire, papier-mache, and white pine needles. Insofar as I’ve got 14 white pines in my small, south Mpls yard, and I read at least one newspaper cover- to- cover every day, I’ve got plenty of supplies. I’ve also made a bull moose and an African, two-horned black rhino. Each is life-sized. Making these animals-except, obviously, the rhino, is one way for me to be “in” the BWCA in the deep winter. There aren’t rhinos in the BWCA, are there?

Steve Gendron, artist extrodinaire, inspired by his time at Sawbill.
Here is this week’s edition of the Cook County West End News from WTIP, North Shore Community Radio.