View allAll Photos Tagged BackBears
Captured from the safety of my passenger window yesterday on day 2 of our drive scenic back to Vancouver.
Actually saw two but I only was able to photograph this one.
Enjoy your weekend!
Opening day at Yellowstone National Park and this little cinnamon colored black bear was actually very happy to see us. After diving head first into the snow, he rolled around on his back, flipping from side to side, flinging snow and smiling broadly...
I was relieved to see that this little Cinnamon Colored Black Bear is still around. Since I saw him last summer, we have had three neighborhood bears that were considered "problem bears" captured and either relocated or euthanized. Their crime was that they were habituated to human food either by being fed or getting into non bear proof garbage cans. All human caused. I was thinking this guy was looking a little too comfortable with me as he watched me take the shot out the sliding glass doors, but Wylie got wind of him and sent his 18 pounds bouncing off the glass doors, scaring the bear back to the woods.
This is a follow up shot of the cinnamon colored black bear I posted previously. Now he is rolling enthusiastically in the snow.
In places where bears climb trees, even big bears like this several years old female can climb a tree with swiftness and agility that somehow seems uncharacteristic for an animal this large. After watching her lumber across an open pasture, in a slow, quasi lethargic fashion one could be lulled into imagining that her closest living relative might be the sloth. That assumption would be completely and totally incorrect, for these bears are capable of running upwards of 35 miles per hour, and can bound up a tree in a matter of seconds. Coming down, however, is a bit more difficult and sometimes precarious. For bears don’t have rear view mirrors and seeing beyond a not so tiny tush can be difficult. For black bears, there’s a lot of head turning and hesitant contemplation of footing that goes into descending from the heights. #BackBears
But a problem bear.. He was standing on our hot tub, peering over the computer in my husband's office. I opened the sliding doors to the deck and took a quick shot. Instead of taking off, he moved towards me, not with malice, but in anticipation of food. I barely lifted the bear spray and he took off. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported capturing 6 bears in Big Sky in August alone. One was a multiple repeat offender and had to be euthanized. One had been re-located to the Crazy Mountains five years ago and made her way back. So many visitors, part time residents, and out of town construction workers don't understand what happens when they feed them or are careless about garbage.
This young black bear cub, about 7 months old, I guess, was watching me while doing chin-ups on the limb, kind of reminds me of the old graffiti "Leroy (killroy?) was here" (lol)! Image has been severely cropped. This will likely be my last post for a week or so.
On my way to Williams Lake I stopped just north of Prince George to photograph a beaver dam and while I was setting up a black bear came out to feed on first growth dandelions.
Here he is with my telephoto. He was pretty hungry and didn't seem to mind my presence but did spook when a truck stopped on the highway to see what I was doing.