Glacier National Park webcam captures bruin's lingering wake-up call

[Ptah]

The images change slowly, but are almost unbearably delightful.

One minute, the black bear’s ears, eyes and snout pop out of a large hole in the trunk of a cottonwood tree in Glacier National Park. About two minutes later, only a tuft of hair is visible in the hole, which has been converted into a winter den. Wait for it — and out pops a paw. A few minutes later, it looks like the bear has rolled over, with only the hair on its back visible.

Lauren Alley laughs as she notes how a lot of people probably are having a hard time working after Glacier National Park posted the bear cam on its website Thursday. That day alone, 37,388 viewers saw the black bear slowly emerging from a long winter’s nap — not unlike watching an adult reach for that first cup of morning coffee. Another 12,000 people viewed the wide-angle posting of the bear’s den.

“That zoomed-in page was the number one page for the entire National Park Service; it even surpassed NPS.gov, which is the main page for the whole park service,” said Alley, the public affairs officer for the park. “We had people viewing from Namibia, China. It’s caught the attention of a lot of people.”

http://missoulian.com/news/local/glacier-national-park-webcam-captures-bruin-s-lingering-wake-up/article_8909d6fd-c73f-588b-9da4-ed15f2d1b966.html

[Bayard]

1. Awww.....

Can't play without a subscription.

[Ptah]

2. Maybe this link will work for you:

https://www.facebook.com/GlacierNPS/videos/10155683782674912/

[Sunlei]

3. you can view all our national park webcams free on our government websites- here the link

https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

[RandomAccess]

4. You know what I did?

If you use Chrome, there's an option on right-click to open in a new window, incognito. I get past NYT and WP subscriptions that way (would gladly subscribe if I could afford it, tho). That worked for this link too because turning off my Ad Block didn't do it for them. Shrug.