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  • Mother Black Bear Nurses her three cubs. Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite NP.
  • Young Mule Deer Buck, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park. Copyright © 2007 James McGrew.
  • Black Bear Cub climbs down from an afternoon nap in a tree. Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite NP.
  • Yellow Bellied Marmot, Townsley Lake, Yosemite National Park, CA. Copyright © 2004 James McGrew.<br /> Marmots, bearing resemblance to their cousins known as groundhogs, are large rodents of the middle and higher Sierra. For a special anecdotal story about these interesting creatures, please see: <a href="http://jamesmcgrewfineart.com/works/59475/a-view-from-mt-hoffmann">http://jamesmcgrewfineart.com/works/59475/a-view-from-mt-hoffmann</a>
  • Bobcat in Yosemite Valley; illustrates its excellent camouflage.
  • Two year old female Black bear, Yosemite Valley. Copyright © 2009 James McGrew. Although called a black bear (Ursus americanus) and usually black in the darker forests of the northern and Eastern U.S. However, in Sierra's sunny, open forests of cinnamon trunked trees, brown and golden hues of grasses and under story (except in the lush greenery of spring) they blend into their environment with a range of colors most often including blond, bleached blond with dark roots, red/ginger, and brunette. This young bear forages for insects in a rotting log. Bears acquire most of their protein and fat from insect larvae such as beetle grubs, termites, ants etc.
  • Old Coyote in Yosemite.
  • Mother Black Bear and Cubs. Crane Flat, Yosemite, CA. Copyright © 2009 James McGrew.
  • In search of carpenter ants and grubs, a young American Black Bear ventures out at dusk, stripping bark from a dead aspen trunk near Merced Lake in Yosemite National Park. Copyright ©2010 James McGrew
  • American Black Bear, Yosemite. A few weeks after I took this photograph, this bear was killed by a moving vehicle. Speed limits in national parks are set to protect wildlife as much as they are for the safety of tourists.
  • Mule Dear Fawn in Bracken Ferns.
  • Mule Deer Doe, Yosemite Valley. ©2011, James McGrew. While painting early one morning in Yosemite Valley, I heard some footsteps behind me and looked back to find this deer and her fawn feeding beneath the shadows of the incense cedars less than 20 feet away. She stepped into the light just long enough for a photograph.
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