Strange Bear Behavior Revealed - Or Attempted Anyway

[@indisputablefacts8507]

Perhaps they tore up that grass to attract trail cameras.

[@RubysCreek]

Bears wallow day in and day out regardless of temperature. If your bear spot were a wallow, the bears would still be wallowing in it. And you would be seeing muddy bears. My guess is they were foraging for something when they dug up this area, perhaps for ants or grubs, but the action was over before you got your cameras up.

[@woodworker3122]

Maybe the bears watch your channel too and know all your plans. They may have cameras watching you watching them? Who knows?

[@calebdoner]

Just imagine the conversation among the bears. There's that one "conspiracy theorist who is sure those humans are watching us." And all the other bears laugh at how ridiculous he is being....but he just knows they're watching.

[@977Hlogger]

I guess we got a first hand view of what it would look like to get mauled by a bear?😂 love the videos!

[@c3h84ever]

Buster Skruggs.. Your video's are great, love the land

[@saltymofo5870]

They make bear boxes for your cameras. They are steel and lag bolt to the tree, camera goes inside and the door locks. They work well as bears won’t chew or bother steel much. We have to use them here in the east or your cameras won’t last all night, also prevents most camera theft

[@skoog75]

Bears on our property in the western Sierra dig up in ground yellow jacket nests near streams.

[@OutbackCottageOz]

The Bears are constructing a Mud Spa for You! 🐻🐨

[@AWoodworkersLife]

Never underestimate the curiosity of bears. That said, I had rabbits destroy irrigation lines one summer. Fenced out the bears and it just let the rabbits play without fear.

[@johnpauloregan4593]

Of all the trees in the forest they go for the ones with the cameras, when you replace the water pipe michael you should put all the old piping up on one big heap, that should keep them content 😂😂, really enjoy your videos michael, thank you. 👍

[@mikedrouin3789]

You have a lot of good trail camera videos! I was thinking about a video you put out recently. The one about the pot growers. I found it odd that you didn’t see any sign of them cleaning up their mess during your video. Those signs should be obvious. Even after one week. Also on a different video you showed the adjustment legs on your mill. It seemed it was standing pretty high. Of course, a lower center of gravity would stabilize it some. Also during some of your videos it seems like you think or know that the newest layer of wood on a tree is the outer layer just under the bark. For some reason, I always thought it was the center of the tree that was new. Of course this is East Coast thinking. I don’t claim to know anything! I do watch your videos though and appreciate your knowledge and craftsmanship. I appreciate you sharing.

[@moonmunster]

The bears are just messing with you. They are up the hill laughing at your right now. It is beartainment.

[@thecommonsman]

The bears created the wallow because it was a good place to find pipes.

[@dl582]

And cameras

[@mtsarch]

Did you eat a big bag of Cheetos before you hung those trailcams up? 🤣

[@Mattytube18]

They’re in pursuit of minerals.

[@wildandliving]

Google said cooling off and scent marking usually near cover. Tree chewed up and the bear drags your pipe away is basically saying this is my area b..itch.

[@wildandliving]

That's why you can't have nice things

[@pauljorgensen7623]

Google says...lol 😂

[@m8s4lif]

I kind of think that they like the smell or taste of plastic. It's pretty obvious why the bears try to destroy your cameras. If you needed to do what the bears do in the woods, you wouldn't want someone filming you either. Wel, I had better "skat".

[@saltrock9642]

Bare/bear spot, 🤣Wilson must be putting the cameras up while eating a peanut butter and jelly sammich.

[@EricSimmons102]

What else ya gonna do when your a bear - your too funny.😅🤣😂

[@pascalfleury3829]

Time to invite some bear hunters

[@awldune]

Those rascally bears 😁

[@chadmarino2741]

The bears are doing what nature is directing them to do electro magnetically in order to keep a balance between the pathway and sugars of the trees to the fish to the microscopic organisms to the bees and ultimately to the survival of you and me. So if you let bears be bears then everything else will be harmonious because bears are a keystone species.

[@mnemosynevermont5524]

It's flea treatment before nap time. Dig a pool for the bears there, and BURY your pipes!

[@toddschultz7477]

Good stuff , anyway you can make a chain saw sharpening video.

[@normzehms3548]

Getting a good taste of that incense cedar. LOL. Thank you for sharing. I love your videos.

[@nearlynormal2293]

Couldn't you use a few bear rugs in your cabin?

[@HangtownDave]

Bear Wallow. They do love a good wallow!

[@CrimeVid]

Gotta do these pipes in galvanised iron. I've seen plumbers that don't have opposable thumbs ! can't stand upright either !! Used to be able to blame it on lead poisoning.

[@BillHale-p9d]

You have to many bears 🐻😂 Hay Boo boo this one tastes like PBJ

[@magunco]

they can smell your scent You need to clean the cameras and use glove without your scent

[@chjp2346]

Hey Brother, the pigs made the wallow and the bears run the pigs off before you got there!!! Or invited them for lunch!! 😂

[@timothybrawley7909]

I think that the bears are like "politicians".That do what you don't want them to do and don't do what you want them to do. I think maybe they might be working for the government. They just like to mess things up that they had no business messing with in the first place. They are strange acting creatures. They do like sweets though. This first hand I know. I had one that picked up my trail on a hicking and camping trip, and followed me until he had gotten almost too close for comfort. I figured out real quickly what he was after, threw down the candy and ran. I left the bear behind me on the trail. He ate all of that candy. I no longer take sweets around bears.

[@donellison6445]

Looking like pest control. 😊

[@c3h84ever]

Plastic is made with formaldehyde (sp?) Which is the same scent as what ants produce (Formic Acid) maybe that's why they go for the cameras, same as them tearing up refrigerators in cabins.. But I could be wrong The pipe probably has similar products in it

[@MicahHughes-y9t]

Bears are the reason you can’t have nice things? Solution- “ Say hello to my little friend “

[@timblankemship9698]

Okay I think the bears can actually sense the frequency. The cameras work off of that's why they go after the cameras. It happens to all my friends here in Virginia. That's what they say it's the frequency they work off of😮

[@Peter-od7op]

Is the link for camera in Description I can’t find it maybe it’s just me

[@BonitaGreen-z3h]

Necessities, get it?

[@thebigfellar7178]

They roll around in the mud, a mud wallow. It's for bugs They like us hate the pesky things.

[@deborahferguson1163]

Except in the fall, there aren’t many bugs.

[@timmyfields6159]

A big truck mud flap with roof nails in it should deter them. Use short ones that won’t hurt them too bad

[@Dustin_the_wind]

Thanks, Michael. I begin to wonder if the cameras make a sound imperceptible to human ears, but not bears; it isn't out of the realm of possibility that they are easily spotted and become the fancy of wildlife, but the levels of interaction seem to encroach the personal level. Maybe it really is as simple as many philosophers have said; everything is bored, and life itself exists to sate said boredom.

[@Daninater]

The bears are doing the exact thing you're doing. They seem really interested in human scent or any changes since they last wallowed. Anything foreign.

[@MsdMakingSawDust]

Would you like for someone to bring there stuff over and put it in your backyard ? 😂😂😂 Apparently they don’t appreciate you putting stuff in there backyard

[@Sven-ErikJohansson-tn6hx]

Hej Mikey you should put a camera on the cam and a camera on the next camera,and so on Mvh Sven-Erik

[@mchrome3366]

Nature is baffling. Almost like the physics experiment that changes the outcome if it’s being observed vs not being observed or something to that effect like spooky action at a distance.

[@normzehms3548]

One bear's "ornery" is another bear's fun!

[@HubertofLiege]

Obviously the birds are in charge and have directed the bears to create a bird bath and destroy the cameras

[@jeffteague3704]

Haha amazing analysis

[@willamettehops]

Why don't you guys dispose of the damaged pipes?

[@N4HHE]

Maybe if there is enough damaged pipe laying around the bears will continue to gnaw on the old rather than the new?

[@TheDevice9]

Those Banded-tailed Pigeons tend to nest near a mineral source needed for calcium and sodium supplementation during the breeding season , perhaps the bears want this too.

[@CrimeVid]

Newts and frogs in the mud in autumn

[@duckshaker]

Maybe the reason bears are drawn to your trail cameras is your scent. That sandwich you had for lunch probably smells real good to them!

[@marktullis1175]

Elk wallow w/bear tracks🤔

[@GraySquirrelMFG]

The bear creates an unusual mud wallow to attract other critters, which then leave a scent that the bear tracks to his prey.

[@cawiltu]

Better use coppers piping.😂😂 Guess burying would be no use😂😂

[@RTeBokkel]

I would set up multiple dummy trail cameras.

[@edhansen8531]

Minerals.

[@DeanKullhem]

They really do hate cameras.

[@Randy-pq2oy]

Put them in a metal box . I think you can buy them to fit you'd camera.

[@magunco]

They also look at the light and want it gone

[@GraySquirrelMFG]

Watch out, dude! The bear is tracking your scent, too!!

[@robertshank8412]

At least we are closer to answering the proverbial question.

[@ColinMacIver]

Get in the mud! You'll find out!😘

[@jeffmarty3353]

It might be bear grass they’re eating. I’ve seen it in the North Cascades in Washington.

[@TheOldManAndTheSaw]

What else do bears do in the woods? Oh! I remember; they.......................

[@whiteynut]

A few wraps of barbed wire will help to keep the bears from adjusting your cameras.

[@mark5552]

Minerals

[@darrenhutchinson5435]

As long as you know

[@kenbrown2808]

the obvious conclusion is what bears do doesn't bear scrutiny. or watched bears don't bear. or something. I wonder if the wallows are cooling off wallows, and the weather has cooled enough they aren't using them as much.

[@jimgilligan396]

It might be elk playing in the mud the first part of September

[@themancalledx]

I don’t see the camera link. Is it just me?(very well could be)

[@Bushman9]

Hmmm… you barely got any evidence of why bears make bare spots. Bear in mind though that bears barely bear their intentions.

[@Nathan-bp7ij]

Replace those pipes with steel pipes

[@ibelieveican3138]

I said it before and I'll say it again. Bigfoot is afoot.

[@N4HHE]

Bury the pipe. Cheaper than iron.

[@MarkDerbyshiremoses]

At what point did you not realise to bury the plastic pipe where bears hang out?? There's a compound in the PVC hardening process that smells the same as an ant nest. Bears smell pvc from miles and exploring with their mouth. This is why they chew up fridge freezers, pvc and softer pvc. They go in that mud wollow to kill ticks, the tick cannot breath went some types of mud stick to them as they beath out their bottoms. Ticks are removed fully when they retract to breath.

[@hikerJohn]

Why are you leaving the chewed piped in the creek?

[@pauljorgensen7623]

They like technology. It's boring walking around in the woods everyday

[@janistan]

You're a lucky man, Wilson! Here we have spoiled brats stealing and destroying all nice things, -cars & cameras included.

[@dw6090]

Black pipe looks like a snake. We use to have hoof imprints into our black water pipe. Could b same with bears

[@danlowe8684]

Probably feels good to cool their heels.

[@jondurr]

Oregon Black Bear season Statewide: Aug. 1 - Dec. 31

[@Nickrioblanco1]

There is reason our ancestors killed off the bears. I carry a portable ladder with me and set up cameras at 10' or 12' high to protect them from thieves and hooligans.

[@Mattytube18]

Put an air horn that is actuated by a motion sensor.

[@metricdeep8856]

right? should not be hard.

[@HubertofLiege]

Bee keepers have an electronic version of

[@johnk.3593]

Yogi and booboo messing with Mr ranger again.

[@Ruger41mag]

Elk wallow ?

[@darrenhutchinson5435]

Not just you simple simian ,

[@matthewbaker1157]

My spirit animal is a black bear.

[@JohnNaturkach]

And he has the audacity to call bears stupid. ,!

[@DANG--]

Bears don't want your stuff on their property!

[@carolewarner101]

First, why haven't you just buried the water pipe? With all the time and money you've put in replacing it over and over and over and over and over again, you could've just rented a trencher and put it underground. Second, why not just get some of those trail camera bear boxes so the bears can't really damage your cameras?

[@Alluvial.]

You do know that digging is one of the many things bears are really good at, right? If they want to mess with water pipe, burying it will in no way stop them.

[@carolewarner101]

@@Alluvial. Would they bother if you trenched it down 3' or do? Seems like it would be less inviting if it wasn't just sitting on top of the ground.

[@pauljorgensen7623]

Looks like the perfect place to hunt bears. They like you and are interested in what you're doing. Their curious what your upto. So they can eat you later. Lol 😮 😂😊

[@metricdeep8856]

I'll throw this out there.....These bears are female. They wreck shit that men do.

[@joemurray8902]

LOL!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@D-B-Cooper]

The bears are being quite obvious in what they want.

[@henrybarker1159]

Meet your new friend Mr 30 / 06

[@waltlee3172]

They're afraid of being identified and going to jail

[@pauljorgensen7623]

Bears sure are cute... until your on the menu.

[@rosger1282]

Maybe try “smoking” your cameras to kill scent?

[@ogreunderbridge5204]

Maybe not tell about your intentions in advance. They may be listening.

[@cydniedonat7635]

So the bear definitely smelled you and the camera. Perhaps even heard the camera. They get naked and roll in the mud there. They don't like peeping toms.