Black Bear

[Mike T]

I was out sunday not seeing much so as I was walking back to my car I spot a bird that I couldn't tell what it was so I cross the road to get a better look. I waited a minute or so to see if it would come out of the bush it vanished into when out pops a bear head (pic 1). I thought it saw me because it dropped out of site into the tall grass but I didn't move. Up it came again (pic 2) it had to stand up to look over the grass. The amazing thing was when it went back down on all fours I couldn't see any grass moving to get a clue where it was going. It came out into the open ( pic 3 ) then crossed the road. I thought it would just continue up into the next field but it started to walk toward where my car was parked , it had about 50 feet to get to the car I had about 15 so I went to the car fast. I wasn't taking any chance and thought I'd be safer in my car, it still came toward the car a bit more than either saw me or smelled me ( pic 4) and turned and went back to where it came from. I've been told that the tags on this bears ears mean it has been in trouble twice before.

Mike