Another Black Bear Sighting!!

 

Remember last August when I was so certain there was a black bear next to the fenceline up on the hill across the pond? And then realized, when I got the photo transferred and enlarged it was just a shadow? Well, it has happened again.

This time it was closer and it was moving! I know they are rare, but there are black bear sightings in Iowa.

This was a small one; maybe a cub? Was the mother back there in the trees?

"Oh, come on, Ramona! That's some smaller animal," I told myself. But what? A wolverine? Also rare in Iowa.

Then its head came up and I saw those ears. "That has to be a bear! 

I yell at Bud to come see it.

By then it had moved again. Still a black something, at least its head, but it had some rust color, too.

Bud's is saying, "That isn't a bear."

Okay, he was right. But what is almost all rust with a black head?

Fooled by a trick of light again. The head wasn't black, it was just in shadow.

My black bear was a healthy looking fox.

"Black bear symbolism is about having patience, confidence, and knowing who you are and what you want."

I must really want to see a black bear! Or maybe I've been influenced by the post of  a New Hampshire woman I follow in Instagram. She does have black bears in her yard, with the most recent photo of one on her deck. 

That actually makes me feel better about my black bear sightings being tricks of my eyesight - and wild imagination. 😎