Bears & Birds

 Time for some wildlife sightings.

Bears have been visiting our wildlife camera on a regular basis lately.

Mama bear and cub. (October 24)

Dancing bear - the camera caught a running bear with all four feet off the ground. (November 7)

This may be the largest bear I've seen around here - prowling through the woods at midnight. Looks good and fat for the winter. (November 24)

Most likely the same bear, three days later at 8:30 AM - if not, there are two large bears running around the woods! (November 27)

In the meantime, our other camera caught a nice time sequence of crows.

Taken over the course of one minute: First there was just one crow, then two, then three, and finally four before they left the scene.

And lastly, a brilliant red cardinal - probably the same male that spends the entire day trying to get into our house banging into our windows and deck door.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to my tripod, so the resulting photo is a bit blurry.