His cousin has been wandering around my small New England town 😉 On our community Facebook page, everyone is posting their sightings of this guy!
Glad he hasn't arrived behind my house yet because Maple gets very curious and tries to make friends with all the pets or wildlife on my street. Hence, the trauma of removing porcupine quills from her face.
No bears here in Houston. We have had a lot of rain lately and sometimes these guys move out of the swampier areas. This one was in the park near my house, right next to the road.
We were driving thru and both me and the wife said...wait, was that what we thought it was?!? Had to make a u-turn to grab a couple of pictures. It was probably ~6-7 ft long.
Let me introduce my local neighborhood wildlife..... 😁
No bears around here but plenty of other wildlife. A friend of mine saw this on her way home last night. She said, "Clearly country folks are always kind… even to strangers!"
Only once in the wild nature have I come face to face with a brown bear. It was in the summer of 2009. The three of us went to travel beyond the Arctic Circle. The weather in that August month for this region was very warm and without rain, during the day in the sun it was 68°F (and so, an ordinary summer is a temperature of 54°F and rains all day long). Somewhere on the 3rd day of our trip, in the evening, we made a bonfire near the camp and sat down to have supper. After some time, a brown bear came out to us. He stopped 25 meters away from us and stood looking at us. We, in turn of, also silently looked at him, without moving. I had a camera with me, but I didn't even think to get it out, so as not to provoke the bear with my movements. This lasted for about 5 minutes in total, after which he ran in the opposite direction from us, closer to the forest. I remember most of all how he was absolutely calm when he first walked towards us, and then looked at us. Only the next day, I returned to the place where we met the bear and took photographs of its tracks left on the sand. This is my story. Below you can find some pictures from that trip (the soundtrack here will be: https://bit.ly/30S4zpl ).
