365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
MeadoWatchers
Day 321: I wasn't the only one out yesterday inventorying plants. These two were conducting a survey of blue huckleberries, taking representative samples from each bush, and from what I'd taste-tested on my way up the hill, I'd imagine that the crop got a five-star rating for both flavour and abundance. I'd actually gone past the bears without noticing them. They were quite a ways down-slope and possibly had been out of sight over the roll as I went by. I stopped to answer a visitor's questions, and another pair of hikers coming up from below spotted the pair and beckoned us down to see them. Even though I see at least one every year, I still enjoy watching the cubs as they learn how to be bears, tagging along behind mom, imitating her berry-picking techniques. Berry season is the best time for sightings, for obvious reasons! Something must have startled these two, though. After a few minutes of providing photo ops for visitors and rangers alike, they loped off downhill and disappeared over the rise.
Labels:
bears,
Mazama Ridge,
MeadoWatch,
MORA
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