We came across a bear near the Tahoe house today – inspecting a neighbor’s “bear box”:
Tag: wildlife-in-the-yard
Turkey for Dinner
Look who showed up at the door for dinner…
Bobcat Crossing Ahead
It would seem that my backyard has become quite the bobcat crossing – this collection of clips is just from the past few weeks:
Perhaps these are those same bobcat siblings I spied as youngsters playing in the yard a few years ago.
More Wildlife Visits
More recent wildlife visits in the yard – deer, coyotes and bobcats:
Ghost Bear Visit
I noticed a curious thing on the Tahoe house front camera after a recent snowfall: first a pristine layer of snow across the driveway and then, a little later, a set of tracks across the driveway and *directly* under the camera….. but no recording of the creature that left them. This camera triggers a recording every time a passing car’s headlights even just illuminates the driveway and yet… no recording of the mysterious creature. Spooky!
Now given the size and shape of the footprints, and how they lead under the front porch, there can be only one conclusion: it was a visit by the ghost bear!!
Early Morning Bear Patrol
Video from my front camera at the Tahoe house early yesterday morning catches a bear checking the car doors of both Mark and Lindsay’s cars in the driveway. Unfortunately my video stops short of showing how they try to pull on the door handles. Lindsay noticed somebody’s car down the street appeared to have been opened up and searched by a bear that morning. Matt went out the previous morning to find both of his passenger side doors wide open but nothing ransacked. Last year, Troy found all four doors of his extended cab pickup truck open in the driveway with dirty paw prints over everything. Looks like even if you don’t leave any food or trash in your car, this bear goes around checking for unlocked doors!
And on a related note, the Placer County Sheriff recently helped this crying cub bear get out of a trash dumpster:
A Covey of Quail
Two More Bobcats
I heard a strange, low moaning/growl from the scrub behind the house. It definitely got Pan and Hera’s attention. It sounded like a noise a calf might make – but when I waited around to see if whatever it was would emerge, it turned out to be a pair of juvenile bobcats growling at each other:
