A few weeks back, I was sitting in my car one evening. Waiting to see if a black bear with a cub of last year would show up in the opening about 40 meters from where I sat. A train was approaching where they were walking near the tracks. The train would cause them to move away. Being an optimist, I was hoping they would pass through the open area I was watching. As I waited, I enjoyed the sounds of the birds that were singing in the forest. After 5 minutes passed, I heard a sound coming from the back of the opening. I could see a head of a nervous adult black female bear. I made no movements, watched her through my camera. She moved forward a few steps and soon after her cub came out in the open, wondering why its mother was concerned about. It sat in front of her and touched the bottom of her mouth with its nose. That seemed to relax her. She stopped looking in the distance and grabbed a couple of bits of vegetation before both disappeared into the trees ahead of them. And I left the area.
