SHOW us YOUR PIX here .... Odd, WeiRd ,UnUSuAl or EyE CaTchIng things from your rides

[steve mercier]

My backyard yesterday morning...at our place AirBnB stands for Bear needing Breakfast!

 

[Prairie Dog]

So much for morning coffee and toast out on the deck, eh Steve?

 

[Art Deco]

Toast with honey...

 

[Prairie Dog]

Note to oneself before going out to retrieve the morning paper. Holster bear spray after donning housecoat and slippers.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Toast with honey...

Bear claws are right out...

 

[Art Deco]

Bear claws are right out...

Didn't know you had those. Big pastry filled with honey and cinnamon ? Maybe white icing too?

I'd just hope the bear keeps moving on ...

 

[DaveMatthews]

Didn't know you had those. Big pastry filled with honey and cinnamon ? Maybe white icing too?

I'd just hope the bear keeps moving on ...

Dude... those things are killer, am I right?
Haven't had one for years, but now I want one!

 

[steve mercier]

Dude... those things are killer, am I right?
Haven't had one for years, but now I want one!

Dave.... You can have mine...all I do is scoop up bearshit , pick up half eaten garbage bags that they find around the neighborhood but only eat at my place and repair smashed down fencing until they decide to hibernate.

 

[JRA]

Guess that answers the age old question of where bears relieve themselves?

I can hear one hooting on the hillside across the road here. Saw it once on a ride but it is pretty shy.

 

[steve mercier]

Guess that answers the age old question of where bears relieve themselves?

I can hear one hooting on the hillside across the road here. Saw it once on a ride but it is pretty shy.

Last week I was in the front driveway watering early in the morning when I heard breathing behind me. I turn to see one giant furball lumbering along the other side of the car. I blurted WTF and basically froze but he was just as surprised as me and ran a few doors down the street until the pungent aroma of some fresh garbage grabbed his attention and he vanished into a back yard. Now our five year old grandaughter has witnessed too many sightings and she will not venture into my backyard until I scout bears for her. I wonder why I have been unable to convince the kids to camp overnight in the cedar playhouse (top right hand side in the picture) that I built for them? (-:

 

[Prairie Dog]

Last week I was in the front driveway watering early in the morning when I heard breathing behind me. I turn to see one giant furball lumbering along the other side of the car. I blurted WTF and basically froze but he was just as surprised as me and ran a few doors down the street until the pungent aroma of some fresh garbage grabbed his attention and he vanished into a back yard. Now our five year old grandaughter has witnessed too many sightings and she will not venture into my backyard until I scout bears for her. I wonder why I have been unable to convince the kids to camp overnight in the cedar playhouse (top right hand side in the picture) that I built for them? (-:

That's insane! I was curious to see how many bear encounters/sightings occur in BC particularly in and around urban centers and came across this site. Highest concentrations seem to be around PoCo/North/West Van but also wonder how many go unreported. You seem to see more than your fair share, Steve.

WildSafeBC Wildlife Alert Reporting Program

WARP is an interactive mapping program that allows users to track human wildlife encounters throughout their neighbourhood. Learn about the when, where and why animals are coming into urban landscapes.

warp.wildsafebc.com

 

[JRA]

Soviet lawnmower. We have some free range bunnies here and this makes me think I should build one of these and put the buggers to work.

 

[Art Deco]

Yeah there's something about your yard they like @steve mercier . And it's hard to change a bear's mind or habits. Sympathy, FWIW.

 

[steve mercier]

Yeah there's something about your yard they like @steve mercier . And it's hard to change a bear's mind or habits. Sympathy, FWIW.

Yup there is something and I know what it is. I am the only one on the block that has no back fence and it opens right into the forest ...haha

 

[Art Deco]

Yup there is something and I know what it is. I am the only one on the block that has no back fence and it opens right into the forest ...haha

Yep, that will do it. A big gap in the fence line might as well be a neon sign saying "all you can eat buffet this way"

 

[dodgeman]

I’ve ridden by this place several times and thought to stop and get a picture. This is a line of steel wheels in front of a rural house. There must be a hundred or more of them lined up. They even have some landscape lights mounted on some of them.

 

[ChezCheese:)]

My exH was a hippie living in a teepee in the woods, long before I knew him. He said one night, he got up to go pee outside (as one does in the woods.) Buck naked, of course. He was peeing away, when suddenly a black bear came upon him. ExH threw up his arms and screamed in terror, "AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" The bear threw up his arms and screamed (in a much lower register) "AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" And they both both turned tail and ran in opposite directions. ExH said he didn't pee for a week after that.

 

[6zfshdb]

The bear should have known that teepee was for peepee and not a wigwam to beat tom tom.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[fooferdoggie]

you don't see the dust in the pic but it looked like the outhouses wherein fire. they sure smelled like it with 95 degree heat.