How to Discourage Crows (We Hope)
We’ve reported recently that a flock (oops! we mean a murder) of crows has been visiting ABR to avail themselves of the food provided for the cubs. A friend who…
Andy, Eliza and Finnegan Bear
We are fortunate to have some excellent photos of all three of the ABR cubs in their Wild Enclosure. We can see that Andy and Eliza are still smaller than…
A Visiting Bear Family
Appalachian Bear Rescue is located in the heart of bear country, so it isn’t odd to have other bears wandering through. We don’t mind at all, and since the cubs’…
New Video – Three Cubs Foraging
We reported about the way the curators are trying to encourage interaction between the cubs by throwing food in one area only, forcing them to forage near to one another. …
Peek-a-Boo Cubs
The foliage and underbrush in the Wild Enclosure is lush. We are glad of that, but it does make the cubs harder to spot when the curator is down near…
Three Cubs and a Crow
The three cubs were foraging not far from each other. It seems that the curator’s strategy to get them closer to each other by throwing food in one part of…
More Crows
In the last post we told about crows that frightened Eliza Bear and caused her to stay very close to a tree for safety. There were nine of those crows,…
Cubs and Crows
Since ABR is located in a forested area close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, we often have other critters who visit. Some, like the crows in today’s post,…
Hiding Cubs
On their six-month assumed birthday (ABR assigns the date of January 22, which is midway in the possible birthdays of new cubs) our three little cubs chose to hide from…
C’mon Cubs,Get Together!
We have reported that the three cubs in Wild Enclosure #4, Finnegan, Andy and Eliza, have not been seen playing together or associating with one another. Andy and his sister…