Love your black bear and turtle encounter. We see them often here on the acreage. , but not usually until late Aug.to Oct. They come to raid the fruit trees and the walnut tree. This year we had an early raider come and savage the cherry tree. Bear style pruning isn't pretty. That was in the night at the end of June. We wondered about the state of the wild berries to bring a bear down slope so early. But this bear was very healthy looking. Well the next day he came back mid day and interrupted my reading outside the kitchen. Just sauntering down from the shop ready to finish off the last of the cherries. I yelled and wave my arms around. That's usually sends them off. Note I said he before , no cubs anywhere . He just looked puzzled. I panicked bit and went looking for my landlord's air horn. Couldn't find it. The bear backed up the shop road a bit and tried to hide behind a small bush. But proceeded to bat the top of the bush with its paw. Now things are getting to the cute and comical. Then it went further up towards the shop and demonstrated how it could tear bark off chopped logs. There must be grubs in there somewhere. Then he went back into the forest. Later that night the remaining cherries disappeared and further bear like pruning was discovered in the morning.
I thought the ticks might turn out to be bad here this summer as they seemed to be starting off that way in the spring. However nada in weeks. Just speaking with a friend who works at a park near here and he mentioned that there seem to be no ticks this summer. Yet, I did a bird survey at a lake inland of here and got ticks all over me - that was in early June. They were all Black-legged. Odd year.
They haven't been as bad in the last two weeks, but it started out really poorly with lots of black-legged ones, and then dog ticks. Right now - knock wood - they seem to have subsided.
I've been bitten & infected 3 times this season & I wear alot of tick spray. I called into CBC Maritime Noon Tick talk & spoke w the expert biologist & she said that black-legged ticks is NAME ONLY & the ones that can infect do NOT all have black legs, either ! CRAZY
Love your black bear and turtle encounter. We see them often here on the acreage. , but not usually until late Aug.to Oct. They come to raid the fruit trees and the walnut tree. This year we had an early raider come and savage the cherry tree. Bear style pruning isn't pretty. That was in the night at the end of June. We wondered about the state of the wild berries to bring a bear down slope so early. But this bear was very healthy looking. Well the next day he came back mid day and interrupted my reading outside the kitchen. Just sauntering down from the shop ready to finish off the last of the cherries. I yelled and wave my arms around. That's usually sends them off. Note I said he before , no cubs anywhere . He just looked puzzled. I panicked bit and went looking for my landlord's air horn. Couldn't find it. The bear backed up the shop road a bit and tried to hide behind a small bush. But proceeded to bat the top of the bush with its paw. Now things are getting to the cute and comical. Then it went further up towards the shop and demonstrated how it could tear bark off chopped logs. There must be grubs in there somewhere. Then he went back into the forest. Later that night the remaining cherries disappeared and further bear like pruning was discovered in the morning.
Closer encounter than I would like.
You saw the bear up close ?!!!!!
Rainforest. Growing like mad. Especially the weeds !
I know, especially after yesterday, 283 cm of rain. Everything is saturated
We've had an unusually high number of ticks here as well. Glad to hear you didn't stumble across any bear cubs!
Me too!
A great read, as always!!
I absolutely love your style of writing Charles ✍️ 😍 ❤️
I thought the ticks might turn out to be bad here this summer as they seemed to be starting off that way in the spring. However nada in weeks. Just speaking with a friend who works at a park near here and he mentioned that there seem to be no ticks this summer. Yet, I did a bird survey at a lake inland of here and got ticks all over me - that was in early June. They were all Black-legged. Odd year.
Ha ! I've been bitten & infected 3 times this season !
Thank you, Johanna. As always, I appreciate hearing that. Thank you for reading.
They haven't been as bad in the last two weeks, but it started out really poorly with lots of black-legged ones, and then dog ticks. Right now - knock wood - they seem to have subsided.
I've been bitten & infected 3 times this season & I wear alot of tick spray. I called into CBC Maritime Noon Tick talk & spoke w the expert biologist & she said that black-legged ticks is NAME ONLY & the ones that can infect do NOT all have black legs, either ! CRAZY
Yow! That is crazy. But I have heard that before.