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First Bear of the Season

We had our first bear visit of the season, a huge female, with two cubs! Time to hide those pick-a-nic baskets!
 
Back again. Stoopid neighbor let his yellow lab loose and the dog separated the mom from the cubs, who were up a tree. So of course then she wouldn't leave the area for two hours. That guy is lucky the mama bear didn't rip his dog a new one. Eventually the cubs started to cry (a kind of groaning sound, sort of like a mental patient noise) and the bear came back and claimed them. What a scene.
 

Phyl

Officer Emeritus
Officer Emeritus
Oh my goodness. Yeah, he's lucky that dog didn't end up lunch. Where are your close up pictures of the bear?!
 
I took some pictures but it was dusk so you can't see much. I need either a big flash or a much faster telephoto. The cubs were pretty cute, just about the size of big raccoons.
 
In the meantime, here's a couple bear pix from last year, a mother and THREE cubs!

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First FOX of the Season, or Ever!

The dog was going nuts on his walk, and when we got to a clearing in the woods there was a little red fox standing there, the first one I've ever seen alive in NJ. Funny thing is, it didn't run away, it just walked to a kind of safe distance and checked us out. I made the kissy-kissy noise you can use to call in weasels, and he came trotting towards us, looking for an injured animal. Eventually ran away. He had cute little black legs and ears, darndest thing I've ever seen.
 
That is pretty strange!

Be careful if an animal that normally would run comes at you. Last thing you want is for your dog to get bite by an animal infected with rabies.
 
wow that dog is very lucky... by my house we dont get any bears... just alot of deer and foxes. where are you located that your seeing bears at?
 
I'm up in Rockaway, in Morris County. Stoopid bears wrecked a $80 bird feeder the other day. I had it way up in a tree, like 30' with a pulley, and they climbed for it.
 
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