AND THEN THERE WERE BEARS …

This beauty had a light golden coat on his shoulders and back, and
was totally oblivious to my passing by — looks like that time of year
again, when the only thing the bruins are worried about is obsessively
chowing their way up to hibernation weight.

For those who have asked how close these wild animals are to passers
by, I walked around the trail from where I shot the above photo, and
tried to take another shot (shown below) for perspective.  See the guy
riding by on his bike? He didn’t notice the bear at all. Neither did
the golfers putting away on the green to the left of the biker. I shot
the above pic a little further ahead and to the right of that cyclist —
and the bear is the brown blot hidden behind greenery in the depression
to the right. Make sense?

And just to see how often we walk past these foraging beasts,
perhaps not even noticing they are there –  if you look real close at
the pic below, you can see the ear and part of the back of the head of
a fairly large black bear munching berries in a patch about two arms
lengths off the trail …. can you spot him? Makes one think twice before
scrambling through the brambles search of berries, eh?

In this last pic (below), you can just see the very black, rounded tip of his ear.

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