Bear thread

[Bushcraftt]

Hello!

I used search but couldnt find similiar thread so decided to start one. If there allready excists one i hope this will be removed.

OK so bear is my favourite wild animal as you can see from my avatar. I know you dont have bears in UK but if you got any cool information about bears or have met one on trips this is the place to tell about it!

I live in Finland and we have 1330–1445 (over 1 year old bears) according to Finnish Game and Fisheries research institute(2012). Bear population is strongest in Eeast-Finland and Lappland but they are also met in Western and Southern-Finland.

I havent met one in my life, they pretty much try to avoid humans.

Here is picture of finnish bear and paw mark

on the right frontfoot and right backfoot

 

[Bushcraftt]

*right is fronfoot and left is backfoot

 

[ozzy1977]

When I was in Finland we saw plenty of signs of bear, and heard one fairly near by, sadly didn't see one though.

 

[Bushcraftt]

Cool which part of finland were you?

 

[ozzy1977]

We were on an exchange trip from Otley college here with a college near Mikkeli, back in 1995 or6

 

[Hog On Ice]

In hiking around here on this side of the pond I will fairly often see black bears - probably have seen over 100 in the last few years - especially like seeing the cubs.

 

[Snooky]

Saw quite a few bears in Canada this summer and a few weeks ago my bro in law filmed one in his garden eating berries then looking in the bin before walking out the gate, love seeing them in the wild

 

[Bushcraftt]

nice to see pics! Keep em coming guys

 

[bb07]

On the road

Swimming

Bear sign

An old bear den

With a ball cap for scale

A view from opposite the entrance

And a skull!

 

[Bushcraftt]

Awesome! How that swimming picture has been able to get? O.O

 

[ozzy1977]

I would not like to be in a canoe that close to that chap.

 

[bb07]

Awesome! How that swimming picture has been able to get? O.O

I was crossing a lake by boat and spotted it swimming directly in my path, so I said hello, took it's photo and we each went our separate ways

 

[Bushcraftt]

The bear looks so focused on swimming i wonder if it have come all the way from that opposite land