It’s almost impossible to loll about watching the Olympics when there are 5 bears running around your backyard.
I was sitting on the futon and saw a blur of black through the glass in the downstairs door. I jumped up and hollered “it’s the bears!”. You don’t have to tell Gerry twice, he ran up the stairs to grab the camera.
We tiptoed out onto the screened patio and he cautiously opened the door. He started snapping pictures but it was after 7 and cloudy and the light was dim, they were too far away for the flash and there was no way he was going to try to get closer.
The cubs are almost to German Shepard size and are starting to look for food on their own. One of them clawed at an old stump for a few minutes looking for bugs. Mamma wondered up the hill and left two of them staring back down at us.
In the video you’ll see what they do when the neighbor’s dog started barking at them. Well, you’ll see what 3 of them did, the fourth one (I’m sure it’s a boy) was rambling around and came running up later.
This video is one of the little buggers looking right at us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDHL46iXLds