{"id":31375,"date":"2021-11-14T06:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T14:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31375"},"modified":"2021-11-14T06:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T14:58:59","slug":"midnight-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31375","title":{"rendered":"Midnight bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You would think that any self-resecting bear would have bedded down for the season. But, no, despite it being mid-November and snowing, for a half hour around midnight last night, I was kept awake by two black bears foraging on rowan berries beside my home and even climbing from a tree onto the roof of my bedroom.<\/p>\n

I chose to stay inside, judging that the difficulties and hazards of getting a good shot of a black bear at midnight were not worth the effort. However, I did discover that nighttime bears can be spooked by shining a spotlight through a window and into their faces.<\/p>\n

The big fellow adjacent to my window could have been the twin of this earlier visitor.
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