Looks like one to me, but you be the judge. The cam was about 6 and a half feet off the ground. The color differances in the fur make me question,, could it be a rodent climbing up tree, maybe a squirrel or chipmunk. I thinks its a bear but with hesitation.
(http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae340/joshuademetriuslee/IM000244PB.jpg)
That there is a bear sure enough...looking right into the lense.
Looks decent too
ChuckC
If you got chipmunks that size I'd stay inside. :scared:
Laughing my ass off Joekeith
Can't stop laughing
QuoteOriginally posted by joekeith:
If you got chipmunks that size I'd stay inside. :scared:
LMAO...haha
ONLY other thing I could possibly think of is a pitbull looking dog with ears back....but that is a stretch.
In fact, Just looked again...Gotta be a bear. That muzzle to forehead can't hardly be a dog.
Sure as shootin, thats a bear. Have fun and shoot straight. :banghead:
I'd say bear too. Nice pic, what model Bushnell are you using?
As I processed the picture with my ear-bracketed computer all I got was drop the pack and slowly back away.
Bear for sure
there is a bear
A great big goodun of a bear
its a bigfoot
Thats a big bear.
The bushnell model is
BUSHNELL 119405 5 MP TROPHY CAM TRAIL CAMERA
Worked like a charm, got some elk (cows, and calves), deer, bear, and bigfoot all from one week in the woods. The bigfoot pic may be posted soon, need to check with bigfoot to see if its ok (gotta love photoshop)
that there is an average sized yeti.
I get a lot of those pictures with bears.Sometimes 1 eye,sometimes 2,sometimes a nose.Often,picture one is of the whole bear.Picture 2 is the eyeballs.I use mine with steel lock boxes as they like to play sometimes.
good pic, big bear
My God if thats a squirell he is the king of the jungle.lol
I agree, good bear, you can tell by the crease in his noggin
Yep, big bear! Hope you get a shot at him this year!
Sasquatch - no doubt :scared:
Forget bait take camera seems to interest this bear maybe he will come to look at camera while you are there with your bow.
That thar is a Bar!
It might be a man wearing a bear hat, or an actual bear. It's definately not a squirrel.
Just my 2 cents.
Vig
That's what my hair looked like 20 years ago!
Down here in Texas we call 'em Chupicabra.
Naw...Bear for sure.
"Hmmm, I see you back in there!" :p
There is no doubt. Those little beady eyes ha ha.
Okay, so i'm not crazy and we all agree it's a bear. Here is the follow up question. Is this a black bear or a brown bear (griz)? I have no idea but I will say that the ears look a bit more like a griz than a black, although I've never been this close to either. Also, before you guess I should give you all the info I can to make it fair. Supposedly there are no brown bear in this area, but there are brown bear within 150 miles. I'm going with Brown, whats your guess.
I'm sure that one is a black bear.
Looks like a black to me. Does not look much different than the many bears we run into that want our food when we our on canoe trips. We don't take their pictures, we poke at them with paddles and jump up and down waving our paddles in the air.
Ok, I used a lifeline (internet) and read that black bears can have brown fur. In the pic you can see, kinda, that it has brown and black fur. Dind't know that about black bears, ears still look a little rounded to be black but I saw a few pics that were kinda close. I would like to jump on board with JimB and Pavan and switch to Black..final answer..probably.
a bear or a really big brendal colored pitbull!
Black Bear
Joshua
deffinetly a blackie, we here in Idaho have a lot of color phase bears. I am not sure what part of Idaho your in but, I have a site that has 3 color phase bears (2 blondes, 1 brown) and only 1 black colored bear. On my other site (6 miles away) I have never seen a colored phase bear on it. Go figure.
Unfortunately it's a bear, I wanted to come out and hunt the giant chipmunks.
I'm a taxidermist that does a lot of blacks,grizzlies and brown bears.Regardless of what you read,all bears have rounded ears.You can take the cartilage out of a black bear ear and lay it beside that of a grizzly and you can't tell one from the other.
What is different,is that the grizzlies and browns have much longer hair on their ears which often makes the ears look much more like a puffball than black bear ears.This is why black bear ears may look less round to some.
Grizzlies also never have a distinctly lighter muzzle like many black bears do-but not all.I think your bear has a lighter tan muzzle which would be a contrast to his otherwise brown/black color.
This is why I say it is a black bear.It has enough crease in his head that I believe it is older than 4 1/2 but hard to pin down and impossible to tell gender.You may get more pictures of it.Places like water troughs where bears can dunk themselves are very important in hot weather.Find a place like that and you should get multiple bear pictures.
Go back and look at your grizzly and black bear pictures again and look at those features.Hopefully you can see what I mean.
If you do a search for MT FWP (our game department)they have a grizzly test for hunters.It is interesting to take and it helps you understand that when dealing with color phase black bears,you sometimes have to look close to tell them from grizzlies.
QuoteOriginally posted by JimB:
I'm a taxidermist that does a lot of blacks,grizzlies and brown bears.Regardless of what you read,all bears have rounded ears.You can take the cartilage out of a black bear ear and lay it beside that of a grizzly and you can't tell one from the other.
What is different,is that the grizzlies and browns have much longer hair on their ears which often makes the ears look much more like a puffball than black bear ears.This is why black bear ears may look less round to some.
Grizzlies also never have a distinctly lighter muzzle like many black bears do-but not all.I think your bear has a lighter tan muzzle which would be a contrast to his otherwise brown/black color.
This is why I say it is a black bear.It has enough crease in his head that I believe it is older than 4 1/2 but hard to pin down and impossible to tell gender.You may get more pictures of it.Places like water troughs where bears can dunk themselves are very important in hot weather.Find a place like that and you should get multiple bear pictures.
Go back and look at your grizzly and black bear pictures again and look at those features.Hopefully you can see what I mean.
If you do a search for MT FWP (our game department)they have a grizzly test for hunters.It is interesting to take and it helps you understand that when dealing with color phase black bears,you sometimes have to look close to tell them from grizzlies.
I'll second all of that :thumbsup:
Thanks for the great info everyone.
PLS12224, the area is near council but I can't remember how I got there :)
This one is a black bear also.It is hard to hide anything from a bear.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a140/jbrandenburg/Trough07008-1.jpg)
Its a hoax :laughing:
Ever see one of them before? :confused: ;)
Bear for me too.
Yeppers a blacky, with that crease n the way the ears look small I'd say a pretty goodun to boot. I don't think a grizzly, from what I can see it's shaped wrong.
Council is a great bear area, unfortunatley super hard hunt to draw.
I think I know the area. Is it next to
no tell'em creek? ;)
I hope you are able to find your way back to get your camera.
BTW love the picture of you and the elk head. I am always suprised on how much those things weigh
Good luck this fall
Chris