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So fun to see moose, especially young of the year calves with mom. Your last pic appears to be a yearling cow.
Our yard trail cams have recently shown both a yearling bull and a yearling cow. A pregnant mom hasn't shown for a while but I expect we'll see her soon, with babe.
Also lately is Bob, our neighborhood bobcat who seems to have decimated our rabbit population. Same with a weasel and the area voles, chipmunks and ground squirrels. Now we have our own yard marmot. I'm sure that Bob would love yard marmot. We like marmots but if he eats my wife's penstemons, well, that wouldn't be good. We've never eaten marmot before. [Dinner]
Gorgeous pictures, all.
Hummer, that Bear picture is something else! [panic]
-John
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He does look pretty menacing. Three videos from two trail cams in the yard show that he's a pretty big fella.
This evening just before 6 p.m., my cousin spotted a bear cross our driveway and head through the forest toward our place. At 8:20, Mrs. Hummer and I spotted the bear in our little meadow about 40 ft. from us. It is a smaller, younger bear than the one on the cams from May 15. I expect it will be back overnight and I'll check the cams in the morning. Not good when bears come around during daylight hours. I'll need to keep the electric perimeter fence energized during the day now. In summer I keep a 12 gauge handy, loaded with 3 rounds of rubber buckshot and rubber ball, then 3 magnum slugs. I hope to haze this little one before it becomes a problem bear.
I did a hike in SW Colorado, and we were hiking up a gravel road to an abandoned town where we were going to spend the night before tackling a couple of 13ers the next day. As we are midway through hiking up the gravel road, a 4x4 or two past us, and the first one said, "Did you see that bear?! Biggest bear I have ever seen!"
I/we had not seen a bear. :o
Please keep us updated. Seems like a pretty serious issue where you are.
-John
Have a buddy who lives in Grant right at the base of Kenosha Pass.
He was up in the middle of the night and had the front door open (he has a screened storm door) to let in some cooler air. A young bear busted thru the screen right into his house, wandered down the hall with my buddy screaming at him. The bear then nonchalantly walked thru the living room and out the closed screen on the patio sliding door. The bear showed no signs of aggression, but no signs of fear, either.
He called DOW this morning. They had reports from two of his neighbors that the bear tried to get into their homes, too. Naturally, DOW is gonna trap and kill the bear. It just doesn't pay to be a bear any more, because there are so many stupid people (not my buddy...he knows how to live in bear country) who violate every rule for living in bear country, that will get you killed just because you're hungry. Frankly, I'd rather have less people and more bears.
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I've never seen a horse with legs like that...
Yesterday I watched a cow with a very young calf try to cross the river but it was too deep for the young one....They both headed back to chomp willow along the stream.
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