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Even though I’m fortunate to camera trap many bears in Massachusetts,
it’s not too often I find bear sign other than scat. Over the last several
years I have located a bear babysitting tree and a bear day bed. Slowing down my
hiking pace and learning what to look for certainly helps. I would have never anticipated finding four
different kinds of bear sign in a 25-yard-long X 10-yard-wide area. In that small
area of 250 sf, there is a downed rotten tree and on two occasions a bear has
clawed at it looking for insects, a short stomping trail and two scent marking
trees along with hemlock saplings that have been straddled when several of the bears
exited the stomping trail. I positioned a camera trap facing the downed tree
hoping a bear would come back and search for insects. Two bears have crossed
over the tree , Maybe the insects have all been eaten….. Reconyx, GardenPro,
Browning trail cameras.
