Sunday, July 1, 2012

Bear on Cougar Mountain (our backyard)

That's right, a few weeks back, just as our kids were peeling corn in the backyard, a 250 lb black bear (above picture taken near Seattle, in 2009) came right into our backyard, 15 feet from Lucy and Quinn.  Didn't seem to mind, just kept going to the forest.  For about a week, we had lots of bedtime discussions about their concerns of bears coming into our house like Santa Claus.  Lucy and Quinn wouldn't go into a room by themselves.
Remember this picture?  We see mountain lions (Bobcats) in our yard almost yearly, though nothing like this cougar.  But we do live on Cougar Mountain, which overlaps the natural habitat of Ursus Americanus (American Black Bear).  30,000 bears in Washington, almost all black, and only one recorded human fatality in 100 years.  I wonder who would win between a Cougar and a Bear.



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