I have my trail cam set out, charged up and waiting for a repeat of the evening before last when I got up during the 6 o'clock news and looked out of my living room window at the front lawn and watched a bear walk by. About ten feet away.
I am still a little buzzed by the sight since I have lived in this admittedly rural area for 48 years and never seen a bear closer than ten miles away and then up in the hills. He wasn't a very big or old black bear, maybe 150-200 pounds and not black but brown. I closed some doors and followed his wanderings around the yard through different windows. He got to a corner with a closed gate and reversed his route, ending up in a clump of berry bushes. I alerted some neighbors, made sure the cat was inside, put a ten round mag in the Mini-14 and ventured out with no good plan. My young neighbor came over with his deer rifle and we tried to locate Mr. Bruin for about a half hour before decided he had left the area the way he came. Checking with some folks across the road and with a vineyard next to wilder country turned out they saw a family regularly munching their pinot noir. OK. A bear. My first one, never even showing up on critter cam. Never any scat or overturned trash cans, including the ones lined up every week along the road. So I guess I will pay a little more attention for a while dusk to dawn. There will be a related post tomorrow in the guns thread. |
My FB people have already seen, the mountains and foliage are not the only beauty we have seen this NH trip. Driving down a back road through the forest and we came across this beast.
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Tesla be verwy verwy quiet.
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747 won the Fat Bear Contest this year...
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Nice work 747!
I saw a fisher cat yesterday, that was pretty cool. |
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Yeah, a chocolate brown oversize weasel. I hear they are hell on chickens but security is pretty tight here.
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I was neck deep in the river, leaning back against the bank, and one of them (we call them fishers 'round h'yere) came hiking down the creekbank, came within about 6 feet of me. Gave no indication he knew I was there. I think he had somewhere to be.
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I hope this poor baby doesn't get carbon fiber splinters in his gums...
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Wow. Shitty day
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Good kitty
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I think my instinct would be to throw rocks immediately, probably get me killed.
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She just wanted him gone and her actions were to menace not attack.
Effective as hell, I'd say. |
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Caught a flying squirrel in the floor joist cavity. With a towel. |
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