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Photography

Crewleader

(17,005 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2015, 08:47 AM Mar 2015

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Photo of the Day

March 30, 2015

Caught on Camera

Photograph by Drew Rush, National Geographic

A camera trap near Yellowstone National Park catches a grizzly bear stealing whitebark pine nuts from a squirrel’s cache. The nuts are an important food for the bears, a threatened species.

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Photo of the Day (Original Post) Crewleader Mar 2015 OP

Surprise! You're on candid camera! mnhtnbb Mar 2015 #1

Caught Me Really Off Guard Crewleader Mar 2015 #2

Wow. Curmudgeoness Mar 2015 #3

Hi Curmudgeoness Crewleader Mar 2015 #8

Wow, that camera trap really worked well, my dear Crewleader! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2015 #4

Hello Dear Peggy! Crewleader Mar 2015 #9

"Hey! Can't a bear sh*t in the woods without the paparazzi showing up!?" n/t Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #5

Hello Binkie The Clown Crewleader Mar 2015 #10

Hello! Still working up the courage to post one of my own photos. Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #11

One wonders? Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #6

I feed squirrels daily Crewleader Mar 2015 #7

mnhtnbb

(31,381 posts)

1. Surprise! You're on candid camera!

Reply to Crewleader (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 08:52 AM

Mar 2015

LOL! That bear has a WTF look, doesn't it?

Crewleader

(17,005 posts)

2. Caught Me Really Off Guard

Reply to mnhtnbb (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:14 AM

Mar 2015

Love The Bear!

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

3. Wow.

Reply to Crewleader (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 10:24 AM

Mar 2015

That photo is so excellent.....and I don't know how the photographer got a picture that seems so close, of a grizzly bear!

Crewleader

(17,005 posts)

8. Hi Curmudgeoness

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 11:01 PM

Mar 2015

I think it's a excellent photo too!

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,580 posts)

4. Wow, that camera trap really worked well, my dear Crewleader!

Reply to Crewleader (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 11:52 AM

Mar 2015

Thanks for this dramatic shot!

Crewleader

(17,005 posts)

9. Hello Dear Peggy!

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 11:02 PM

Mar 2015

Here's a wave and a hug!

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

5. "Hey! Can't a bear sh*t in the woods without the paparazzi showing up!?" n/t

Reply to Crewleader (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 12:56 PM

Mar 2015

Crewleader

(17,005 posts)

10. Hello Binkie The Clown

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 11:05 PM

Mar 2015

You're new in town...oh my, I made a funny!

Hey nice to meet ya!

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

11. Hello! Still working up the courage to post one of my own photos.

Reply to Crewleader (Reply #10)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 11:28 PM

Mar 2015

I'm new to digital photography.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

6. One wonders?

Reply to Crewleader (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 04:32 PM

Mar 2015

Did the squirrel set up this cam after losing a previous cache of nuts?

Crewleader

(17,005 posts)

7. I feed squirrels daily

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 09:58 PM

Mar 2015

and they are amazing to observe, they are intelligent enough to pull it off!

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