Comments on: Postcard from home

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:30:32 +0000

Uh oh. My advice: kill them now. Or in a year’s time you’ll find them munching down your shrubbery in broad daylight.

By: Dick

Dick — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:44:05 +0000

Great stuff. I love reading these accounts, Dave. Sadly, we’re a bit short on bears here in North Herts, but we can do deer from time to time. I was woken up last night by the sounds of rummage around the french windows. This morning several distinctive black turds indicated a visit from one of the local (if not naturally indiginous) muntjac.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:26:39 +0000

quiet regular – Read it again: four cubs!

By: dale

dale — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:49:47 +0000

:-)

By: quiet regular

quiet regular — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:57:39 +0000

wow, three cubs…I guess there’s plenty of what a bear needs to be healthy on your mountain.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:24:48 +0000

Well, other than the four-hour delay at the border caused by U.S. border agents being assholes, it sounds as if they’ve been having a pretty swell time. I haven’t heard from them since they entered BC, though.

By: marja-leena

marja-leena — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:33:06 +0000

How are your brothers and niece enjoying their trip, especially BC? I still wish you’d gone with them and swung by the SW corner too! Lots of similar wildlife in BC…

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:23:02 +0000

Well, I’ll keep my eyes open. But as I said above, the bear family wouldn’t have made much of a photo; it was too dark. And I watched the deer through a screen of leaves from a small cherry next to the house – one of the things that makes my front porch such a great blind – so not much of a movie there, either.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:36:47 +0000

Dave, you MUST carry your camera permanently attached to your person. Another mini-video of the bears and the fawns at play would have been unmissable. Can you get them to replay those scenes for you?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:36:25 +0000

That makes me feel all the better for handing him off to you! He’s gonna be hell on nestlings, you know. Still, he sounds like a lot of fun to watch.