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Terry Tataryn
May 22, 2017
Another first for living on the Bowron. So I'm watching a super hockey game with the window open. The buzz from the hummingbirds around the feeder pulled my attention. I went to the back door and was going to sneak around the corner to try and count the hummers.
A black spot on the far side of the pond hit the water and was coming hard. A Grizz in the pond! I charged upstairs to roust the girl to come see what was happening. When I next look out, the Grizz is halfway across and a cow moose is in the front of the yard. She is agitated to distraction and charges through the willows out into the water and turned the bear back to the far shore. The cow then circles back towards the yard, cruising back and forth along the willows as she tracks the bears movements with her ears. The Grizzly continues to press across the pond and the cow charges again pushing the Grizz back into the far side willows.
I'm telling Brenda, by this time, that the Cow must have a Calf and the bear is not going to stop until he has it.
The Grizzly on the edge of the willows, cow moose belly deep in the middle of the pond, sizing each other up.
Well, Banshee Brenda gets into the fray, just screaming at the top of her lungs. The cow turned her ears and held position. The bear seemed to take a few seconds to shift its focus from the mission at hand to the Wacko in the window.
A crazed lady in the mix was enough to spook the Grizz out toward the river. As the bear spooked, the cow circled back towards the house, her ears following the movement of the bear.
By now the Banshee had a pot and wooden spoon and was in the upper yard screaming and banging like a Rock star. The Cow now went about her business in the thick willows and the moved out along the edge of the pond WITH the shaky leg calf she had stashed there. Of course the Banshee had hit crescendo by this time. The cow, still tracking the bears movements with her ears, took the calf into the pond, along the edge, but deep enough that the calf was getting a good wash and away from the Grizzly, down river.
And Yes, the Wacko is feeling pretty proud of herself, saving babies is what she does.
