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Hi Rick, May 5, 2012
I know very little about bears but that dung looks relatively
unweathered suggesting aged less than 2 months.
Yt, DW, Kentville
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Whitman" <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com>
To: "naturens" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 6:00 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] A Bear Story
>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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