Bear on the porch

[donnamatrix]

We had a young bear, last year's cub it would seem, walk up on our porch on Mother's Day! I can't figure out how to insert the photo here ..

[donnamatrix]

Needless to say, we will stop putting the birdseed out on the front bannister. It does provide the cats some entertainment watching the birds/squirrels, but this guy freaked 'em out yesterday!!!

[Pepper]

Those photos are awesome! It would appear you certainly had a very interesting Mother's Day!

[SteveA]

Thanks for posting! Awesome pictures... I bet the Messers in your Icon picture disappeared fast!

[Rattlesnake Gal]

Great pictures donnamatrix! It must have been exciting to have that bear so close - a little unnerving too. Glad mama bear didn't show up for the party.

[WinnDixie]

I would have to say, Donnamatrix, you had the Mother's Day to top them all! I am also curious...did I miss how it is that you have thanks in the millions??

[donnamatrix]

I have no idea how the website calculates the THANKS ... but clearly that number being displayed is somehow tied to the DOW of last week!!!

We have lots of photos of our bears. They saunter up the driveway, walk through the yard ... any time of day, it seems. If you closely at the photos you can see the black steel (I think) bar that is twisted back and down toward the porch floor. It used to stick straight out from the front of the porch and hold a bird feeder ... but a larger bear (we didn't see it happen) bent the thing ... my husband who is fairly big & strong, can't get the bar to move!!! Just don't go walking around Suissevale without a noisemaker of some type... wouldn't want to meet up around the corner with a big black bear!

[WinnDixie]

Originally Posted by donnamatrix

I have no idea how the website calculates the THANKS ... but clearly that number being displayed is somehow tied to the DOW of last week!!!

I just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed something REALLY stupendous!! Not that the bear pictures aren't right up there!

[ApS]

Originally Posted by donnamatrix

Needless to say, we will stop putting the birdseed out on the front bannister. It does provide the cats some entertainment watching the birds/squirrels, but this guy freaked 'em out yesterday!!!

The answer is not to feed the bears...

[donnamatrix]

Gee, I have never even seen a moose except on television. I think this photo is awesome. Wonder what the cat was thinking!

[GTO]

Originally Posted by donnamatrix

I have no idea how the website calculates the THANKS ... but clearly that number being displayed is somehow tied to the DOW of last week!!!

We have lots of photos of our bears. They saunter up the driveway, walk through the yard ... any time of day, it seems. If you closely at the photos you can see the black steel (I think) bar that is twisted back and down toward the porch floor. It used to stick straight out from the front of the porch and hold a bird feeder ... but a larger bear (we didn't see it happen) bent the thing ... my husband who is fairly big & strong, can't get the bar to move!!! Just don't go walking around Suissevale without a noisemaker of some type... wouldn't want to meet up around the corner with a big black bear!

We had a bear on our deck a few years back and we had one of thos solid metal poles with a bird feeder on it. He completely bent the pole. I couldn't bend it over my knee. Last labor day he walked out of a neighbors yard 15 feet in front of me and a neighbor and crosed the street. Just walked across and just kept looking back at us. He was in no rush and definately wasn't afraid. I wasn't too afraid either because I knew I could run faster than my neighbor. He was in the neighborhood alot last year and we got some good photos and a video of him. I'd say he was 400 lbs

[sluggo]

I have a friend that bought a new hot tub last year and had it installed with all the bells and whistles. A couple of days after he had it installed he heard a noise down stairs and went to investigate and found a full grown bear sitting in the tub like he owned the place. To bad the bear wrecked the tub, over 2,000 in damage.

[pcmc]

Great thread....needs more pics, hint hint.

Acres per second, what area were the moose pics taken?

[Belmont Resident]

What I cannot believe is that donnamatrix has never seen a moose living in NH.
You really should take a day during the spring, summer or fall and drive up north to Rt-3 in Pittsburg. Moose ally they call it.
Maine has Rt-201, we see so many moose yearly that we take it for granted that some have never seen one. We see them on snowmobiles, ATV's and in the car all the time, as well as bear, coyote, fox, lynx/bobcat.
3 years ago I was mountain biking up behind my house when I came over a ridge and almost ran into a moose. Not sure who was spooked more, him or me.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by Belmont Resident

What I cannot believe is that donnamatrix has never seen a moose living in NH.
You really should take a day during the spring, summer or fall and drive up north to Rt-3 in Pittsburg. Moose ally they call it.
Maine has Rt-201, we see so many moose yearly that we take it for granted that some have never seen one. We see them on snowmobiles, ATV's and in the car all the time, as well as bear, coyote, fox, lynx/bobcat.
3 years ago I was mountain biking up behind my house when I came over a ridge and almost ran into a moose. Not sure who was spooked more, him or me.

When you see them on snowmobiles and ATV's, do they have a helmet on?
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[andyheath]

Originally Posted by Belmont Resident

What I cannot believe is that donnamatrix has never seen a moose living in NH.
You really should take a day during the spring, summer or fall and drive up north to Rt-3 in Pittsburg. Moose ally they call it.
Maine has Rt-201, we see so many moose yearly that we take it for granted that some have never seen one. We see them on snowmobiles, ATV's and in the car all the time, as well as bear, coyote, fox, lynx/bobcat.
3 years ago I was mountain biking up behind my house when I came over a ridge and almost ran into a moose. Not sure who was spooked more, him or me.

Belmont Resident.......come on now, really, everybody knows Moose can't ride snowmobiles or ATV's, their heads won't fit in the helmets!

[GTO]

Originally Posted by Belmont Resident

What I cannot believe is that donnamatrix has never seen a moose living in NH.
You really should take a day during the spring, summer or fall and drive up north to Rt-3 in Pittsburg. Moose ally they call it.
Maine has Rt-201, we see so many moose yearly that we take it for granted that some have never seen one. We see them on snowmobiles, ATV's and in the car all the time, as well as bear, coyote, fox, lynx/bobcat.
3 years ago I was mountain biking up behind my house when I came over a ridge and almost ran into a moose. Not sure who was spooked more, him or me.

Although I now see bear quite often, I still have not seen a moose either. It's turned into a joke in my family. We go for rides looking for them but someone must be tipping them off. We talked about going up to moose alley but that's like going to the aquarium to look for fish...almost like cheating

[Belmont Resident]

Originally Posted by Rusty

When you see them on snowmobiles and ATV's, do they have a helmet on?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOjG...SkKWQ&index=16

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by Belmont Resident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOjG...SkKWQ&index=16

You sure do enjoy life to the fullest. I didn't know that a Moose would let you get that close to it. Maybe it was looking for a mate.

Thanks for the video...you're a good sport.

[Belmont Resident]

Originally Posted by Rusty

You sure do enjoy life to the fullest. I didn't know that a Moose would let you get that close to it. Maybe it was looking for a mate.

Thanks for the video...you're a good sport.

Young moose often will come right up to a person, that was a very young one. I just saw a video on FB of a young moose that would not leave a group of snowmobilers alone. the moose was actually licking the guys windshield and they were all scratching its head. If I can download the video from FB I will add it.
It took a while but I found it. Turn the volume down because whoever made it swears a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZUS...e_gdata_player

[ApS]

Originally Posted by sluggo

I have a friend that bought a new hot tub last year and had it installed with all the bells and whistles. A couple of days after he had it installed he heard a noise down stairs and went to investigate and found a full grown bear sitting in the tub like he owned the place.

We know that bells and whistles might attract bears—so, next time, install a "Basic" Tub away from the house...the bear will still think he owns the place.

[Rusty]

This picture of a bear climbing to get at a bird feeder in Meredith is in today's edition of the LDS:
http://issuu.com/dailysun/docs/lds3-27-13/1?mode=a_p

[HellRaZoR004]

Originally Posted by Rusty

This picture of a bear climbing to get at a bird feeder in Meredith is in today's edition of the LDS:
http://issuu.com/dailysun/docs/lds3-27-13/1?mode=a_p

That's one determined bear...from the surroundings that looks like a hefty climb (or fall if you want to look at it that way).

[Maria]

Thank you for sharing!!!! That was great!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Belmont Resident

Young moose often will come right up to a person, that was a very young one. I just saw a video on FB of a young moose that would not leave a group of snowmobilers alone. the moose was actually licking the guys windshield and they were all scratching its head. If I can download the video from FB I will add it.
It took a while but I found it. Turn the volume down because whoever made it swears a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZUS...e_gdata_player

[Belmont Resident]

Originally Posted by Maria

Thank you for sharing!!!! That was great!!!!!!

Thanks, that one was a lot cooler then the one my wife took of me and a moose.

[fatlazyless]

Trying to guess-timate the weight of a bear is difficult but my guess says it was 300 to 400-lbs, and the three baby bears were maybe 20 to 30-lbs each.

Down at 82 Cattle Landing Rd in Meredith, which is about six house lots up from the Cattle Landing parking lot, tonight at 7:30, I saw this large bear with three cubs cross the road and head up into the undeveloped woods across the road from the lake. As I passed their location, I stopped my car and backed up a bit to get a better look from about 50-feet away, and the mommy bear shooed the three cubs to climb up a large pine tree.....so's I decided to leave.

It was one great big, healthy looking, well fed bear all covered with thick black fur and seemed to be a very calm bear.

[ApS]

...who like to "hog the lens"...



Not his only "Pool-Bear"...

[HellRaZoR004]

Originally Posted by ApS

...who like to "hog the lens"...

Not his only "Pool-Bear"...

Yikes! Is that photo real?

[ApS]

I e-mailed the above to friends, and titled it...:

"How to Take a Self-Portrait with a Marine Mammal"...

'Course, they're all thinking: "Porpoise".

There's many more photos—Google the name, "Agee" (and Mark).

I do believe they're "big dogs"—Mark would agree.

[donnamatrix]

It's true... I've never seen a live moose. When my husband and I first moved up to NH from MA morethan 10 years ago, we did drive up "moose alley" and ended up in Errol, which is also pretty good moose viewing area. It was Columbus Day Weekend, and we had lunch and asked the waitress where would be a good place to look for moose. She gave us directions to a ski area up the road. Since there was no snow on the ground the ski place wasn't opened yet. We drove up and found the place on a back road. As we drove, we noticed a lot of pickup trucks parked rather haphazardly on the road and wondered about it. Then we saw a guy park a truck and jump out with rifle in hand and traipse into the woods. We realized it was the beginning of hunting season and high-tailed it back to Moultonboro! I have seen a bobcat on our road, several bears (including the one on the front porch), a fisher and more deer than can be counted. I have seen moose tracks in our dirt road... but no critters!

[HomeWood]

I saw one swimming across the lake near the Long Island bridge. It swam to a beach on LI and ran off. I was a kid then, but our boat and a few others stayed with it until it was safe.

[wifi]

Originally Posted by HomeWood

I saw one swimming across the lake near the Long Island bridge. It swam to a beach on LI and ran off. I was a kid then, but our boat and a few others stayed with it until it was safe.

In the unlikely event the bear had not learned how to swim, who was going to volunteer to jump in after it ?

[ApS]

Originally Posted by wifi

In the unlikely event the bear had not learned how to swim, who was going to volunteer to jump in after it ?

Oh, someone will jump in...:

[riverat]

Very cool video



http://www.dump.com/awesomebear/

[nhboat61]

In my few short years coming to the lake, I have not seen a bear. Two years ago in the early morning I saw a moose swimming across. I circled it for a while with the jet ski . I was amazed at the size of it and that it could swim!

We have a den of foxes on our property, they stay to one side and us to the other, they are cute .

[donnamatrix]

NHboat61: why would you feel okay about circling a swimming animal on a jet ski? I don't care if you were observing the 150-foot rule - just doesn't seem like a good thing to do.

[nhboat61]

Originally Posted by donnamatrix

NHboat61: why would you feel okay about circling a swimming animal on a jet ski? I don't care if you were observing the 150-foot rule - just doesn't seem like a good thing to do.

There were skiers and tubers around and I was concerned that they would not see the animal and run into it. It's head was barely above water. I just idled around it so others would see me.

[donnamatrix]

thanks for the clarification. I know when they swim you can only see a little blob of a head above the water. Amazing they can swim at all with thos skinny legs!

[ApS]

OK, they're not exactly "like a dog".



Link

[Pineedles]

Dogs Can't Climb...

Originally Posted by ApS

OK, they're not exactly "like a dog".



Link

My yellow lab can climb the ladder on our swim raft. So, not all dogs can climb, but some can.

[NHBUOY]

It's funny that I just saw this thread. My son just called me from M-Dith and told me a big momma bear actually broke the storm AND entry door to the guest cottage. She had 3 cubs with her that were in a tree until she "called" them to come down. Exciting morning.

[ApS]

More "species interaction", from the Weirs Times:

Originally Posted by Pineedles

Dogs Can't Climb...My yellow lab can climb the ladder on our swim raft. So, not all dogs can climb, but some can.

I see the previous link is no longer available...so after a brief ad...and a brief Jimmy Fallon (seen in Wolfeboro seasonally)...a too-brief shot of a bear climbing a ladder to observe the cameraman.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26852192/n...38678#49083649

[Just Sold]

Originally Posted by NHBUOY

It's funny that I just saw this thread. My son just called me from M-Dith and told me a big momma bear actually broke the storm AND entry door to the guest cottage. She had 3 cubs with her that were in a tree until she "called" them to come down. Exciting morning.

That bear and 3 cubs is still around here on Meredith Neck off Cummings Cove Rd. She and her 3 cubs were spotted checking out our trash barrels which were empty last week by the neighbor. No damage and they left quietly.

[fatlazyless]

.....say-hey....how's about this.....at about 4-pm today, August 1, I saw a full grown, black bear jog across Route 104 in the vicinity of Blackey Rd, Meredith NH 03253......no-kidding!

[ApS]

Originally Posted by sluggo

I have a friend that bought a new hot tub last year and had it installed with all the bells and whistles. A couple of days after he had it installed he heard a noise down stairs and went to investigate and found a full grown bear sitting in the tub like he owned the place. Too bad the bear wrecked the tub, over 2,000 in damage.

After all that vandalism, the bear probably needed to stretch out to rest.

http://www.msn.com/?ocid=iehp