We’d heard from neighbors that a moose had a pair of twin calves on the little peninsula between Mud Bay and Viking Cove, where a huge mansion sits. The other day we learned that one of the twins had been killed by a brown bear. Ironically, the area is on the road side, the most developed part of our neighborhood.
Our peninsula has little to attract bears, other than the grasses on the bay (yes, bears graze) and moose calves in the forest. We rarely see bear sign, other than an occasional dung pile in the middle of the trail. our closest encounter came two years ago when a bear walked through our potato bed one morning.
Aly compares her hand size to a brown bear's tracks. (Zeiger family photo)
