28 Sept 2004
Black Bear Cubs in Spruce Tree
At Adams Lodge a mama black bear and her three cubs visited us one night. We tried to discourage them and only succeeded in having them go up a large Engleman Spruce tree near the back door. They stayed in the tree all the following day and left after dark.
28 Sept 2004
Black Bear Cubs
Another shot of the same two cubs as above
28 Sept 2004
Mama Bear
Waiting patiently for dark before bringing her cubs down from the tree.
28 Sept 2004
Mama Bear
Very calm and patient. She nursed the cubs off and on all day. The comfort sounds the cubs make while they are nursing is really interesting, a very loud purring, sounds like a helicopter.
28 Sept 2004
Bear Cubs Taking a Nap
These two are snoozing away the day.
28 Sept 2004
Cinnamon Bear Cub
This is the Cinnamon Bear Cubs first time visiting the lodge with his mother and two siblings.
26 April 2007
Big Black Bear
Kate and I saw this large bear up South Fork. It was quite a distance from us. The photo was taken using a 600mm lens with stacked extenders, a 2X and a 1.4X in low light with manual focusing so the quality is not good. We were still excited to see the bear and enjoyed watching it until dark. We were far enough away that it wasn't bothered by us and continued to graze. We were surprised to see it so fat this early in the spring.
26 Dec 2002
Bear at the Lodge
This medium sized bear was in the tree by the back door when this photo was taken. This was our first bear photo. Poor quality as it was taken with a P&S camera in the middle of the night.
07 June 2005
Cinnamon Cub
This cinnamon cub was one of the three cubs that came through with their mother the year before. He weighs about 80 pounds now.
07-OCT-2007
Cinnamon Bear Cub
He's thinking about climbing the tree after we tried to scare him away from the backdoor.
