Happy First of December 2024!

 The dear bears that have been smart enough, and strong enough to work around the best contraptions that our maintenance man has come up with...even on a night when it was freezing...they played mayhem with our trash. (back in mid November).

See the chain and toggle locks on the lids? See the strap that was locking the tubs into the bin? No help...Mrs. Black Bear lifted them up, and tumped them over and found dinner.

Black Bear (from the internet)

It's sad because she may have cubs and they'll learn this is how to eat, and on and on. And of course someone will kill them, through no fault of their own because half the woods they call home now have these pesky people living in them. So they learn easy and nutritious people food, have more healthy cubs, and we people complain and take photos, but we just cannot figure out a way to co-exist.

Grizzly bear 399 and her 4 cubs 2020. No Grizzly bears are in North Carolina, they're further out west.

I recently watched the Nature show about Grizzly Bear 399 on PBS. There are also several videos about her on YouTube. I was sorry to learn of her death in an accident with a truck in October. Again, she is known to have interactions with humans.

Not feeling like going shopping, but I did stop on Cherry St, in downtown Black Mountain the other day. What? Another bear! I was supporting a local artist, and it was worth the trip, though I got tired going up the hill!

Speaking of flying, a skein of Canada Geese flew by outside my window...on the other side of the trees, where the slope allows them to be at eye level for me, and I hear them talking to one another as they pass by.

Rabbit rabbit for good luck this month. 

Sharing with Saturday's Critters a day late!