[LRflex] Re: IMG: Blondie & BooBoo
- From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:34:06 -0400 (EDT)
Philippe Amard wrote:
>Other : Were you in the canoe?
Nope, on land. It was raining much of the time so it wasn't dry land.
>And
>How fast can you :
>a) run
>b) paddle
>c) swim
It's not necessary to run faster than the bear. I only have to run faster than
the other people.
>I'm happy you came out of the encounters safely and had the excellent
>idea to share your nuggets.
It was a great privilege to watch BooBoo learn to fish for himself. The first
time he caught a live fish, Blondie came over to look and BooBoo told her quite
clearly that this fish was HIS and he wasn't going to share. After this, each
time he caught a fish he took it away into the forest to eat it.
Thanks for looking, and for your comments.
Doug Herr
Bearman of Lake Tahoe
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>Le 9 oct. 10 à 23:57, Doug Herr a écrit :
>
>>
>> I spent much of the last week near Lake Tahoe, at a creek where
>> Kokanee Salmon were running upstream to spawn. The local Black
>> Bears had discovered the salmon run and were feasting on the fish to
>> put on weight for their winter sleep.
>>
>> The Black Bear (Ursus americanus) is the smallest of the bears
>> typically found in North America, and despite its name its fur can
>> be a variety of colors from black to almost white. The Black Bear
>> is less aggressive than the Grizzly Bear, and since the species
>> evolved at a time when several large land predators such as Dire
>> Wolf, Saber-tooth Cat and Grizzly Bear were preying on it, the Black
>> Bear thinks of itself as a prey species. The Black Bear is fully
>> capable of inflicting serious injury to humans but because it thinks
>> of itself as a prey species most often it will run rather than attack.
>>
>> On several occasions during the week I encountered Blondie and
>> BooBoo, mother and cub, and over the course of these encounters she
>> learned that I was not interested in eating her or her cub, and I
>> learned that as long as nobody threatened her cub she was no threat
>> to people.
>>
>> Blondie:
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490124.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490216.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490221.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490224.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490235.jpg
>>
>> BooBoo:
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490071.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490239.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1500003.jpg
>>
>> At the beginning of the week it was clear that BooBoo was still very
>> dependent on Blondie for food.
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490188.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490079.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490369.jpg
>>
>> Blondie is a good hunter:
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1500034.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1500044.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1500050.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490209.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490098.jpg
>>
>> She demonstrated a clear preference for female salmon, frequently
>> catching a male then tossing it aside when she found it didn't
>> contain roe.
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490361.jpg (male
>> salmon)
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490310.jpg (female
>> salmon)
>>
>> Another bear was attracted to the creek one day. This bear has an
>> injured or missing right eye:
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490256.jpg
>>
>> choices, choices:
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490285.jpg
>>
>> One Eye gets a fish:
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490249.jpg
>>
>> Once Blondie and BooBoo showed up, One Eye ran off. Don't mess with
>> a mother bear.
>>
>> Life for a bear isn't all fishing. BooBoo declares play time:
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490148.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490135.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490141.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490143.jpg
>>
>> By the end of the week BooBoo was doing his own fishing:
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490331.jpg
>> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/carnivores/L1490197.jpg
>>
>> technical stuff: R8/DMR
>> 280mm f/4 APO & 180mm f/2.8 APO
>> shoulder stock & monopod with 280, shoulder stock alone with the
>> 180. Any weird colors are my responsibility. All comments welcome.
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>
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