My TG-2 Tough Camera certainly isn't made for long shots, which is why they sell an extension lens, and unfortunately I do not have it. My camera takes great still shots, mostly for point and shoot to landscapes, mountains, groves, etc. while hiking. The video on my camera is atrocious as you can see, and hear.
If I can (or if readers want) I can post some of those photos here, we have many woods' creatures visit each day. Usually a flock of turkeys will visit, many, many deer, a red tail hawk lives in a visible tree back in the oak forest, and occasionally you'll see black bear. Oh, and given that that is 80 acres of oak forest we're talking about back there (not all ours by the way, it runs into others' lands and then state park), eerily at night you hear coyotes yip and even sometimes howl. That'll make your skin crawl.
I'll watch numbers on this post to see if there is interest.
Anyway, black bear are extremely quiet for their size. This mother (called a "sow") and her fairly large cubs were looking for food but must usually take a pass through our yard at earlier times in the morning. This time they passed about 11am.
Thankfully I wasn't outside - because I was going to take a walk just around the time that I happened to see these bear, glancing out my window. You don't want to get in between a sow and cubs, ever. Even if just a 300+/- pound black bear, which probably is more afraid of you than you it. Still, things have happened. Especially when cubs are involved.
My apologies for the shakiness of the camera, and the focus. But enjoy what you can. I certainly enjoyed their visit. And after I shot those video clips I crept downstairs and out on to the deck to watch them venture off into the neighbors yard and then off into the woods.
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| Close up, Black Bear in my back yard by deck |
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| Larger photo of Black Bear (mother with cubs, cubs are on my car in driveway) |
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| Trailing off into woods by clothesline |
