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Another Visit by a Young Bear

03 Sep 2008

3 Sep, 2008  My Home, NJ Ecology, NJ Wildlife

My husband spent the weekend working around the house, including building a new enclosed area for our trash cans.  We haven’t had any trouble with bears in our trash all summer, but wouldn’t you know, last evening after supper, only a day after his finishing this project, we had a visitor.  I guess he likes the new design :-)  My pictures are a little blurry because I was SO excited, but here’s a few shots off the side of my deck, he/she dragged a bag of trash from the can he knocked over and carried it into our neighbors yard.  I quietly called my husband as I snapped these, and the bear ran, leaving a nice mess for us to clean up.

(Blurry zoom-in, shaky hands, just too excited :-))


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6 Responses

  1. Jessica Sellers

    2008 Sep 03 1

    Aaah! Aaah! Maybe he just had to try it on a dare, LOL! Nice pictures!

  2. Beverly Mahone

    2008 Sep 06 2

    Claudia,

    I always thought living out in a country-like setting would be wonderful but I don’t think I could handle the wildlife. You captured some great shots. I hope you sent them to your local media.

  3. Pam Archer

    2008 Sep 06 3

    Black bears look so cute and cuddly, but boy, they can wreak havoc. One attacked a young boy here, in the Smoky Mtns. a couple of weeks ago. They had to kill the bear. When they did the autopsie, they found the child’s sneaker in the bear’s stomach! BE careful! View them from afar. They are beautiful creatures, aren’t they!

  4. Betty Lynch

    2008 Sep 07 4

    Oh Claudia! I so wished I could live in the country. What wonderful pictures.

    Blessings,

    Betty

  5. admin

    2008 Sep 07 5

    Glad you enjoyed the picture, friends! Pam, we are careful as can be, have heard a few stories of bears breaking into houses, that’s the worst so far.

    Today my wildlife find was a box turtle…I haven’t seen one in a few years, and just love them, used to keep them as pets. (yes, I’m an animal lover, even the creepy crawly ones) I thought we might be able to keep this one, but wasn’t set up for it, and my dog went nuts, so we took a couple of pics and then took him off into the woods. Will post those soon.

    Claudia, the Happy Nutritionist & NSP Herb Specialist

  6. Rhea

    2008 Sep 09 6

    I would be fascinated, and scared, to see a bear that close up. I live in Boston and I’ve seen coyotes here.


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