More fauna

The local newspaper this morning published this photograph of a young bear taken this past week by our neighbor Erin. She lives about a half mile down the road and the bear was on her front porch. Bears show up occasionally around here, although this is the closest we have heard of one near us. 

We are accustomed to deer in the back yard (a doe with a fawn are frequent visitors), coyotes (often heard and sometimes seen lurking at the edge of the woods), raccoons, opossums and wild turkeys. Now perhaps we must keep an eye out for the occasional Ursus americanus.

Just more proof that we do indeed live in the country. 

FYI, the Baraboo Bears, in the neighboring town of Baraboo, are something else entirely.