brown bear

winner of Sunday's track puzzle. Here's your "prize", for what it's worth - a mother bear and cub. CubS, actually. Not easy to see in this shot, but she had twin cubs. One is "hiding" behind the other at the back of the log trough where they were feeding on veggies and...

Well, sort of. Yesterday's track was a front paw track of a bear cub. These front paws belong to a full-grown female bear. So the winner is: Joelle-Marcelle. Too bad there was no prize on offer - other than dedicating an image to the winner.

Brown Bear in a Slovenian forest

Brown Bear or Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi: Ursidae) . Inland Brown Bears are most often referred to as Grizzly Bears. Photographed at Brooks Falls along the Brooks River, Katmai National Park above Brooks Camp. Mixed conifer forest at ca. 12 m (39 ft) elevation.

Brown Bear or Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi: Ursidae) . Inland Brown Bears are most often referred to as Grizzly Bears. Photographed at Brooks Falls along the Brooks River, Katmai National Park above Brooks Camp. Mixed conifer forest at ca. 12 m (39 ft) elevation.

Brown Bear or Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi: Ursidae) . Inland Brown Bears are most often referred to as Grizzly Bears. Photographed at Brooks Falls along the Brooks River, Katmai National Park above Brooks Camp, Alaska, USA. Mixed conifer forest at ca. 12 m (39 ft) elevation.

Brown Bear or Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi: Ursidae) . Inland Brown Bears are most often referred to as Grizzly Bears. Photographed at Brooks Falls along the Brooks River, Katmai National Park above Brooks Camp, Alaska, USA. Mixed conifer forest at ca. 12 m (39 ft) elevation.

Brown bear, Haines, Alaska. September 2009

No rangers, no bear jam, just a mother and two cubs taken through the car window (!) very early in the morning (260 mm, 1/60 sec, f/5.6 ISO 1600).

Our float plane was sitting on one of the fiords in the Misty Fiords National Monument and Preserve when this mother brown bear appeared, followed dutifully by her almost-grown-up cubs.

This photo of a wild European Brown Bear was taken in Finland during late June 2006. He has the nickname Bodari (strong man), although he is over thirty years old and past his prime. However he was a real character and stood out amongst the other bears seen.

This photo was taken during a 14 hour stint in a hide in forests near the Finland/Russian border. Three bears visited bait put out to attract bears and wolverines.