Those photos were taken between 2007-2009.

            
 
             

The bear at left looks like a young one, perhaps the offspring of one of the above. We learned quickly not to store our
seeds in the screened porch. 

Fast forward to July, 2016 and meet our latest cub. There was a lapse of several; years in bear sitings
on the homestead until our first encounter below.   In only two months, he/she had doubled in size!

   


 We had not seen a black bear on the property since 2016 until we got a night shot in April, 2019, taken with a Moultrie 
wildlife camera strapped to an apple tree on the far side of the meadow.  
    


May 22, 2020

 This may be the same bear that appeared on the wildlife cam last April.  Maybe the empty streets of the pandemic has emboldened him.