Paige is one of the volunteers who spends some of her free time running some of my trail cameras and is even starting to build up her own trail camera arsenal. We're always comparing results and trying to find new things and big ideas. It's great, and I can't thank her enough for her time and effort in the outdoors.
We've been putting in a lot of work to capture footage of baby black bears on trail cameras in Loudoun and Fairfax lately, so these results were a big success in my book.
This will help with some sort of population density estimate or survey, but for now, I am just really enjoying these pictures.
This bear was not baited at all, so I feel good about getting these pictures as a naturalist and wildlife conservationist. Sometimes, you just get a trail camera in the right spot, and that's exactly what this was. In fact, it was only until Paige moved these cameras around to better spots, that we really got decent bear pictures. I used my best judgement a few weeks ago with her on a "perfect" location, but she had better ideas, and it's because of that, that we got these amazing animals on cameras like this.
We are trying to figure out if the black bear above is the same as the black bear below on a different camera in the same area.
We are unsure as of now, but we'll figure it out by better comparing times, dates, and locations.
Black bears in Virginia will be gorging on berries pretty soon, specifically raspberries, wineberries, and blackberries in only a matter of a month or so.
We'll find a good wineberry patch to hang a few trail cams in early July for more bear results.
