DJackson10
Footballguy
My grandparents had a house in the Poconos. One year in the circle parking lot my Dad and brother were up there (MMy brother was maybe 4 or so at the time) and wondering out to the porch. My dad saw him and asked where he was going and he said "To Pet the Bear". As you could imagine my dad sprinted out to the deck and picked my brother up before he could advance any further. The Poconoes have been a very rare site these days for bears. Not as many seen as the past. Usually a lot more deer and ducks. One year we had a Mountain lion of some sort that use to wonder around the area. I haven't been up there in a few yrs because my pop-pop died in 2010 and by 2014-15 my grandma was selling the house. The last few yrs we had Russian neighbor and the dad was former KGB. He use to take my brothers and dad and I out shooting targets with Bibi and air soft rifles. No real ammunition. He had 3 different houses and rented out two of them and the house next to us was one of his rentals. Kept the guns in a separate house the one he only stayed out. He only stayed at his rentals when work needed to be done on them.It's weird. I swear it is the same bear every year. It is the same denning site. that said from what I know of black bears from my boyhood in Wisconsin the females usually keep their yearlings through one winter and so only go into heat every other year. This female seems to push them out on their own very young and then become available every year. either that or I am witnessing two females, maybe a mother and a daughter use the same denning site, but I do not think so. At any rate this site is on a ridge above a big snow glade and they slip and slide down it and then clamber back up for a few days before eventually abandoning the den for the summer.