It’s rare to watch a bear trying to awaken from a six-month slumber. But it’s happening right now at Glacier National Park, in northwestern Montana.
From over 350 feet away, rangers have positioned a live webcam upon a lofty black bear den — a sizeable hole some 50 feet up in a cottonwood tree. The bear was first spotted poking its head out of the winter den on March 23, and has been seen there every day since.
According to the park, vigilant cam watchers have seen the bear scampering around the tree’s branches or even traversing down the trunk. But the bear, whose sex is still unknown, returns back to the confines of its winter den. Although it’s early spring, the time that black bears begin awakening from hibernation, the live feed shows that it’s still snowing quite a bit, so perhaps the bear has little incentive to go searching for vegetation. Read more…
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