There seems to be a rather large number of Black Bears around the valley bottoms this year, both scrounging on the ground and in the trees.
This is third posting showing a bear in a tree that I have made in the last two weeks. There are few times of the year when one gets to see this activity, and, indeed, rather few years in a decade. The last time I remember such a glut of bears in trees was four years ago. I wonder if this has been a particularly poor year for huckleberries on the mountainside.
A chocolate Black Bear was about five metres up a cherry tree. It didn’t like being watched.
We, too, have had an increase in the number of bears traipsing through our garden in Whistler this summer. To our delight, we had a cinnamon coloured bear visit last week.