Game Camera Capture #2 and #3

On June 7, our game camera captured two images of a critter sniffing at the lens. Unfortunately, the animal approached so close to the camera that the images produced are both unfocused and washed out.

Before you take a guess at what this critter might be, you need to first understand that the camera is affixed to a fir tree at about 4½ feet off the ground.

I am of a mind that the too-close encounter features a bear.

Capture #2

Capture #3

—Mitchell Hegman