Green Foxy's summer 79
2013

A bear on the 1,9 jogging track

 

I have not seen the bear myself, but I'm often on this track.
2013-05-18. I was so happy it was spring. I started my walks on the jogging track again after the long winter.
I decided to walk on the 1,9 track. And take the 3,2 later when I have more time to be away from home.
2013-05-18. There were coltsfoots growing in the woods.
2013-05-18. Coltsfoots
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2013-05-18. Coltsfoots by the little creek.
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2013-05-18. Here I heard the blackbird singing. But you seldom can see it. Here they are hiding in the woods and not a garden bird.
I took this picture of a blackbird last year in Berlin.
2013-05-18. I moved on, still enjoying the song of the blackbird.
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2013-05-18. Now I had to turn to the right and go on the path the bear was seen. That date we did not know about the bear yet.
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2013-05-18. Now I was alone on this path.
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2013-05-18. On the track back to Gammlia
2013-05-18. I little side path.
2013-05-18. The sun was shining on the pine
2013-05-19. Wood anemones.
2013-05-19. The blueberry twigs had no leaves yet.
2013-05-19. The sun was shining on the pines.
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2013-05-19. Soon back at Gammlia
2013-06-02. Now I left the jogging track. Now there were leaves on the trees. The part of these woods has most leaf trees.
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2013-06-05. I love the greenery.
2013-06-05. In the beginning of summer the leaves are light green. That's so pretty.
2013-06-05. The North Sami house
2013-06-05. Here it looks a little spooky
 
I was on the E4 my on way home in a bus with my husband. We were reading the newspaper on the surfing tablet. Then we read:

Bear in the Gammlia woods

A guy who was running late at night at the 1,9 track, suddenly saw a bear. This happened at July 26 about 23.00 o'clock. Both were looking at each other and after that the bear disappeared in the woods.

OBSERVE! This picture is fake, made in photo shop. I made it for illustrating the story about the woods. This bear is from a zoo and I cic copy it on a picure of the woods beside the 1,9 track.
Some days before in the morning before the bear was seen, I was there and saw a beautiful light shining through the pines.
I was there alone on the path, and it was so peaceful. I sat donw a while and was drinking water. I enjoyed the sunlight shining through the pines.

While sitting in the bus after I read the newspaper, I remembered this bear in the zoo Skansen in Stockholm. (not a wild bear)

And this bear in the zoo in Stockholm.
And this bear in the zoo in Lycksle. Bears are looking so powerful. I like bears but will not meet them in the woods.
And I did remember another bear in the Lycksle zoo, feeding her cubs
 
The man who is an expert for predators, told it must have been a young male who happened to come in the Gammlia woods by accident. He said: "The bear was sure as afraid as the guy was. And the bear sure would disappear from theses woods. Bear does not like to be near people.

But I kept away from these woods a while

2013-02-14. There came no more reports about the bear. And many people were exercising there. So I started to walk there again.
Here I go :-)
I enjoyed the wild flowers in the woods. Fire weeds
Small blue bells.
Hawkweed.
2013-02-14. The track is starting here.
2013-02-14. Here I'm pointing out on the map where the bear was seen. I should pass that place today.
2013-02-14. Far away on the path a dad was walking with his dog.
2013-02-14. There were blueberries in the woods. I picked some and was eating them while walking.

When I came home Ove was joking. He said: "Did not you feed the bear with blueberries?" ;). Bears like both blueberries and lingon berries. I said: No I was eating them myself ant the bear is not there anymore."

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2013-02-14. More small bluebells.
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2013-02-14. A little path beside the track.
2013-02-14. Here 2 people are jogging.
2013-02-14. Now I was with this sign again and had to turn to the right.
2013-02-14. Turning to the right.
2013-02-14. I was hoping that some people also should go this way. But all walked and run on the 3,2 track.
2013-02-14. Now I was alone there. I was not afraid but was looking in the woods all the time.
2013-02-14. This time there was more greenery on this path.
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2013-02-14. No there was no bear in the woods. There was only a little magpie sitting in the blueberry twigs.
2013-02-14. Soon I should turn to the right and then walk the path back to Gammlia
2013-02-14. The arrows show where I came from and where I should go.
2013-02-14. The path back to Gammlia.
2013-02-14. Now I left the track and was happy for the wonderful walk.
2013-02-14. In the distance the North Sami house.
2013-02-14. The North Sami house.
2013-02-14. A bumble bee on fire weed.
2013-02-14. Thistle.
2013-02-14 A bumble bee on the thistle.
2013-02-14. I saw the beautiful light again. This time behind the thistle.
2013-02-15. The next day Ove was with me in the woods. But he only use to walk with me in the woods near Gammlia and not on a longer track.
2013-02-15. Ove took this picture of me by the Sami house the next day.
Wilhelmina Schedin 2016-03-13