Many Animal Sightings in May

 May was chilly and rather dreary...but the animals were all moving and since the vegetation was just blooming it was easy to spot them...and they were everywhere.

May 6th...a bull moose arrived in time for my morning coffee.

May 7th he came again for morning coffee.

 

May 9th...we awoke to a dusting of snow. 

May 20, my husband spotted this grizzly sow with her three, one-year-old cubs less than a mile from our house.

 Amazingly, they all survived their first year.

One cub in particular looks like a teddy bear.

One day we hit a traffic jam driving into town. Mamma moose had two babies...probably a day or two old who were not doing a great job of following her. They could not go over or under the guard rail. We sat for 15 minutes. At one point the mamma game back on the road with them and started to walk to the other side but all the cars had her freaked out so she went right back to this position. We finally eased our way around her as did most others. When we drove home everything was back to normal. No sign of animals.

Our mailbox area is often a place to spot wild life...it's at the bottom of the mountain I live on and not far from the actual river so it's a road for the animals too. As I parked my car, I spotted a moose watching me get my mail.

Here's Bullwinkle...just starting to grow his antlers.

An finally...this lovely black bear was at the base of the mountain as I drove down .

I watched him for several minutes...he was in no hurry...eating the greens along the sides of the road.

All the vegetation has now filled in and I'm not spotting the animals as often but there's lots of bear poop on the roads so I know they are there...just harder to see them. 

About a quarter mile from my house, a baby moose was killed by the grizzly mamma and we are all avoiding the area for a while as it takes a few days for them to enjoy their feast.