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I know this is totally off topic, but I'm excited and have to share it. Wife wasn't interested.
Yesterday evening I was moving a deer stand I have in the Alapaha river swamps. My 5 year old grandson and I were opening the gate down to the river. I looked down in the soft sand and noticed the first bear track I have ever seen. Complete with claw marks!
It had rained the day before and although the top was dry, the sand underneath was wet. The track must have just been made because the sand was wet where the claws turned it up. He must have been just ahead of us.
The boy's eyes were already big as saucers when he asked where the bear was. I said probably close and looked behind him. I hope he doesn't tell his Mama about that part.
Although bears are not uncommon this close to the Okefenokee, I've never seen one and this was my first track I was sure about. Seen a couple of panthers though and they are much less common ...Geo
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I knew a guy down in Texas who was out hiking and ran across some mountain lion tracks. He began following the tracks and soon realized the ML was stalking him! He wasn't attacked but it certainly was an eye-opening realization for him!
Steve
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When I was a kid, we'd mix up plaster of paris and make casts of some of the tracks that we found. Might be fun for you and your grandson. If I recall correctly, we'd sometime spray the dirt/sand with hairspray first to set it and try to get cast to come out clean.
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I am a member of one of the IWLA chapters here in the MD suburbs of DC.
We had a bear a few years ago eat one of the Eagle Scout winter bird feeder projects on our clubs farm.
Pretty cool, its not every kid who can say a bear ate my homework and be telling the truth.
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Lions and Tigers and Bears; Oh My! Lagopus..... :-)
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Lions and Tigers and Bears; Oh My! Lagopus..... :-) A Judy Garland fan no doubt...Geo
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George, any Bigfoot tracks or maybe a sighting?
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I have a cased copy of one of my all time favorite outdoor books: "The Big Woods" by William Faulkner containing his immortal story "The Bear". When I get off work tonight I will inscribe it as a gift to my grandson to commemorate the first bear track either one of us ever saw in the woods. He's 5 and I'm 68 so he's way out ahead of me...Geo
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When I was a kid, we'd mix up plaster of paris and make casts of some of the tracks that we found. Might be fun for you and your grandson. If I recall correctly, we'd sometime spray the dirt/sand with hairspray first to set it and try to get cast to come out clean. I did that once with my two kids. We took a hike and when we'd come across tracks I'd have then mix up the plaster and we'd pour it over the track and move on until we found another different track and then we'd cast it. After we'd found about a half dozen different tracks we had a bag lunch and then back-tracked over our trail and picked up all the now-hardened casts, took them home, rinsed off the dirt and then I had the kids look through a guide book to learn what animal made each track. Thirty years later the kids still talk about that lesson. Steve
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