We went to the first annual Highland County Old Time Fiddlers' Convention last weekend, and left our cherry trees unattended. When we got home, we found the trail camera dangling upside down from its tree. Fortunately, we were able to reconstruct what happened. Bear sees camera....
Bear investigates camera....
Camera gets a tree bark closeup.
This bear visited earlier, but caught wind of the ripe cherries instead of the digital camera.
I think this is the solution to our Bigfoot game camera puzzle. Our cherries are ripe, and along with foxes, scarlet tanagers, raccoons, ravens, possums, cedar waxwings, and orchard orioles, bears are dropping by for chow time. This year, we have a sow with a very small, very cute cub. (No photos...yet.)
Check the bad hair day on this fellow's hindquarters, as he bolts past the salt lick.
The deer show no interest in cherries, but this gal seems ready for her close-up.
Our game camera pictures have been plentiful, and much alike. These deer visit regularly. However, Monday morning, the camera caught this:
Seconds later, whatever it was, it was gone.
Was it a bear having a bad hair day? Was it the the Mothman? (If so, he's a long way from Point Pleasant.) We decided it was probably Bigfoot. After all, the BFRO's 2006 sighting on the Greenbrier River Trail was so convincing that they mounted a return expedition in 2008. Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that it was the Yayho, as described by Burl Hammons.
