I was outside about 12:30ish Sunday (July 27, 2008) and I heard something moving in the woods back below my house. It sounded like it was over towards the road. I had my video cam out with me as i usually do, so I walked down my driveway to see what I could see. What I'd heard was a bear going across the bottom, the north end, of my property and he was out in the road coming up hill towards my driveway. I turned on the video cam and tried to get him in the road, but with me being in the shady woods and him in the sunny road all I got was glare. You'll see in the first few seconds of the video. So I turned off the cam and made some settings to better see him. By then he was out of the road and back on my property and heading towards a path I use to walk down to that corner of my property. He then gets onto that path, which by the way I had started going down before I saw him in the road. As he got closer I'm thinking he's just gonna come right on up that path to where I'm standing. I started backing up the hill trying to keep the camera on him. When he's maybe about 40 feet away from me you hear me start saying "no, no" to him. I was surprised my movement hadn't scared him off already. You might hear a little nervousness in my voice. I kinda hoped my "no, no" would scare him, but then too I kinda wanted just to slow him down as I DO love to watch bears up here. Well you'll see my "no, no" gave him pause, but then he came right on up. I, on the other hand, started my retreat up my driveway towards my house.
I stop a short way, maybe 35-40ft, up my driveway and try to find where he has gone. I scan the woods with the cam looking for the bear to retreat back the way he had come. Then I see the bear has come on up the path and up to the light pole I was standing beside my driveway. He stands up on his hind legs beside the pole sniffing the air - sniffing for me I imagine. He then drops back to all fours and goes back down the path and into the woods. I get shots of him as he heads back down the hill and around behind my house. I go back up my driveway and to the back of my house trying to see him again, but I can only hear him moving. I don't see him again.
At the end of the video, notice the still pics I took from the video of him beside the pole and then me beside that same pole. The two photos side by side compare my height, I’m six foot maybe 1/2 inch tall, to his height beside the pole. His territorial scratch marks on the pole are a good indicator of his height compared to mine.
Pretty cool huh?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
BEAR!!!! 1997 or 98
This bear appeared behind my house one day. I saw it from my kitchen window, but by the time I got my video cam he was gone from view. I went out my front door to look again and didn't see it. Then all of the sudden there it was right in front of my house. It had been hidden behind a lounge chair. I was out on my porch and just froze. After a few minutes he came towards me and then came up on my porch (which as you can see was under construction) and he/she ate my cat's food. I was standing outside my door, on my porch no more than six feet from the bear as he ate the food. My heart was a racin' I'll tell ya!
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