Monday, June 27, 2011

Scat!

I am not a fan of nature right now.

Yesterday when I was working in the garden, I heard 'water' falling from a height, since no one around me was on their balcony, I'm pretty sure that was our neighbourhood black bear who can be seen sleeping in a tree in the yard next door. I guess if you're 30' up and laying on a branch, you might just pee from up there too.
Local warning sign

Later I was in the corner of the yard pruning some plants and I was thinking about the bear and all sorts of related scenarios, when suddenly I realized it was really quiet - no humans making noise, no birds chirping, then I heard some dogs bark - the ones that usually alert us when the bear's on the move - so when  I heard a leaf fall and bounce through all the branches of the tree above me I  just about gave myself a heart attack with an overactive imagination!

I was in the yard around 7:30 last night and then went inside. Around 10pm I made lots of noise and entered my yard to let Eco out, shining my flash light all over the place - and then I found it - a big pile of bear scat!!!! That bugger had already been  through my yard and took a dump in it!!! Yah, we went right back inside....
Yep, I really did post a picture of poop

3 comments:

Carol Browne said...

YIKES! I've never thought of that...but I guess they would just pee out of a tree. And I thought I only had to worry about birds dropping on me from above.

Yay for poop photos! Heh.

Teena in Toronto said...

That is one HUGE poo!

Way Out Wear said...

yes, actually it was very large.....I guess big bears have big butts...enough said.