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I have a bear story & I'm hoping that Paul MacDonald & anyone else who
knows something about this will comment. Today Bernard Forsythe & I
were travelling thru some woods, well off trail. Purely by chance I
came upon a Black Bear bed. This was just a nicely rounded hollow in
the ground in a very well-drained piece of pure deciduous woods.
Bernard pointed out it would be almost wind-free. The only reason I
found this bed was that there were 7 separate piles of bear poop on 2
sides of the bed, all within 2 m of the actual bed, and some 1 m. He
didn't go very far to take a dump ! Mainly due to this, Bernard & I
both suspected that this was a winter bed ("den"), despite the
complete lack of cover. Is this possible ?
I have photos of the bed, the poop, and a track from the nearest woods
road. The sticks around the bed are as they were. The bed is between
them, actually.
http://rickwhitman.smugmug.com/Nature/Mammals/17300243_qb7fkF#!i=1828951828&k=8b6SwSh
Rick Whitman
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