If You Go Into The Woods Today...

Don't expect to be enjoying any picnics ...for longer than two or three minutes.
The one above is a young grizzly, still hanging with the Ma which is probably why it's trying to cleverly disguise itself behind the sheltering boughs of an elderberry bush.

Same spot on a different day the photographer (buddy Alanna) took a few photos of a small black bear with babies. This was a surprise sighting because over the last couple of years our bear population has suddenly gone from black to griz. The Grizzly probably slid into an ecological niche that abruptly opened up with the shooting of 37 Black bears right in town 2 years ago.

I think it's time to send in the gorillas or...tigers maybe??

Or gorillas and then tigers!

This road isn't even technically in the bush - it's a road within town that cuts through two wooded areas.

Not highly recommended for walks at present.