LIVE BEAR cam - Alaska....wow!

[Baz]

https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls

Be sure to also check out the highlights in the smaller panes below.....

[Baz]

People are posting other wildlife pics in the comments section...

Here's a couple fox pics.....

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Great stuff Baz, thanks for posting! Took a few live screenshots

[Baz]

Thanks Shaun! It's a nice diversion from work, isn't it? If only for a short time....

So tranquil. And I find myself rooting hard for those bears to catch those salmon...ha ha!

[Baz]

That time of year again....lot of activity.....salmon are running!

LOVE the little cubs out this morning!

[Cajundaddy]

Alaska is pretty great in summer and a bear cam is a much safer way to observe them. We did a black bear salmon run experience and watched them from an elevated tower. Our guide was vigilant as some folks were stalked by bears on that trail recently.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Cajundaddy

Alaska is pretty great in summer and a bear cam is a much safer way to observe them. We did a black bear salmon run experience and watched them from an elevated tower. Our guide was vigilant as some folks were stalked by bears on that trail recently.

Never been to Katmai but it's on my bucket list. I love bears - from a distance...lol...

[Jeff Higgins]

[rattlsnak]

^^ Holy Crapola!!!

[flatbutt]

that's a well fed bear...or the guy didn't look too tasty.

[Jeff Higgins]

Talk to any hunting guide who has been at it awhile up in Alaska, and they will all tell you about encounters with big bears that are very similar to the one in that video. The most hair raising one I heard was when one of the guides I was hunting with told me about meeting a big brown on a very narrow "trail" (just a game trail, really) through one of those "dog hair" alder thickets that line the rivers. They literally bumped into one another. They both jumped back, then stood there staring at one another, "for about three or four weeks". The bear finally approached, the guy squeezed as far off the trail as he could, and the bear just squeezed on by - "excuse me...". The thing kept walking and never looked back.

[ramonesfreak]

I find hanging around bears in the wild like that more terrifying than free swimming with sharks for some reason. No way I could have calmly held that video camera

[Rusty Heap]

our local PNW black bear just ate 3 garbage cans at my direct neighbors.



it drug 2 cans a hundred feet. 1 can still MIA

[Jeff Higgins]

I actually got knocked flat on my back and run over by a black bear one time. I'm still not sure which one of us was the more terrified...

A buddy and I and our two dogs were out fly fishing a favorite creek in the North Cascades. As per my usual practice when doing such things, I was armed with a big bore single action revolver. On the way out, however, when we were about half a mile from the trailhead, I put it in my daypack, so as not to alarm the natives. Sure as hell, about five minutes later, the dogs (who had run ahead a bit) came running back with a god damn bear in tow. My buddy was in front of me, so he saw it first, and immediately started stammering "b b b b BEAR!!!!!".

So, that is where I "sprang" into action, throwing my day pack on the ground to retrieve my revolver. The damn zipper got stuck. Of course. There I was, kneeling in the trail, when all three critters pulled up. The bear suddenly realized he was now amongst humans, kind of grunted in "bear" what was probably roughly equivalent to "oh schitt", and took off like a shot - right over the top of me, over the downhill side of the trail, and off into the devil's club.

They kind of stink, on the bottom side.

[Baz]

Another season.....mmmmm......salmon!!!

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

I actually got knocked flat on my back and run over by a black bear one time. I'm still not sure which one of us was the more terrified...

A buddy and I and our two dogs were out fly fishing a favorite creek in the North Cascades. As per my usual practice when doing such things, I was armed with a big bore single action revolver. On the way out, however, when we were about half a mile from the trailhead, I put it in my daypack, so as not to alarm the natives. Sure as hell, about five minutes later, the dogs (who had run ahead a bit) came running back with a god damn bear in tow. My buddy was in front of me, so he saw it first, and immediately started stammering "b b b b BEAR!!!!!".

So, that is where I "sprang" into action, throwing my day pack on the ground to retrieve my revolver. The damn zipper got stuck. Of course. There I was, kneeling in the trail, when all three critters pulled up. The bear suddenly realized he was now amongst humans, kind of grunted in "bear" what was probably roughly equivalent to "oh schitt", and took off like a shot - right over the top of me, over the downhill side of the trail, and off into the devil's club.

They kind of stink, on the bottom side.

That stink was most likely coming from your underpants

[varmint]

Bears have significant BO. In the brush you can smell them before you see them.

I smell a stink when walking the dogs I turn and go home.

[herr_oberst]

Imagine being a salmon. Just a few more miles and you can finish the job, just gotta get up over a few more of these waterfalls
and then POW, a hairy catchers mitt bristling with sharp 4" spikes grabs you out of thin air and a big ol' stinky mammal puts paid to your dreams of spawning......

Life. Nobody said it was fair.

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr

That stink was most likely coming from your underpants

I'm sure he was telling the same story later that evening, and likewise finished it with "and ya know, they kinda stink..."

[Cdnone1]

Meet this guy in my backyard in Big Bear a couple of weeks ago