Bears Are At It Again - Game Camera Drama

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  • Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024

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  • @WilsonForestLands
    @WilsonForestLands  Месяц назад

    Trail Cameras I Use
    amzn.to/4d2yzi6

    • @johnmead8437
      @johnmead8437 Месяц назад

      Damaged sealing of the cameras tried (dozens of types since 2006) have all enabled water penetration, including humidity, and eventually failure if used outdoors in the weather. High rainfall area here, about 3m pa.
      Bears would try the patience deeply, with thoughts of rug blanks. A possibility to try is taping extra hot pepper powder on them. Double sided tape with its external surface liberally coated enabling it to be tasted without penetrating a layer of tape & the camera would be something to experiment with. Extra on the external battery cover etc, other critters will rip those off. Even a separate bait just below. Two cameras facing of course, it will have entertainment value if it works. Positioning them somewhere less obvious will also enhance results. A couple of climbing steps to get it higher & out of biped predator reach is one way. A cheap laser sight rested on it will aim it ok, and wedging something behind it to adjust aim.

  • @Maryland_Kulak
    @Maryland_Kulak Месяц назад +64

    The bears are tired of the surveillance state.

  • @Lad-zn6fn
    @Lad-zn6fn Месяц назад +9

    We bought metal boxes and used deck screws to attach it to the tree for our stealthcams, definitely helped stop the bears from chewing them up and helped keep people from stealing them. My whole family buys bear tags and fill them every year. There seems to be an over abundance of bears now, or at least a lot more than there used to be.

  • @nhmountains5683
    @nhmountains5683 Месяц назад +1

    Michael, I feel your pain. They’ve destroyed lots of cameras, apple trees, wood splitter gas tanks, tractor seats. As for trail cameras I carry a 6-7’ ladder and get the camera up high pointing down. They’ve left them alone. I buy cameras mounts that screw into trees. I put them in scrub trees they I won’t damage by screwing the mount in. It allows me to angle the shot and center it much better than the straps. Good luck!!

  • @mtsarch
    @mtsarch Месяц назад +4

    Someday it will be worth all the effort of putting up these trailcams when you catch a sasquatch messing with them

  • @john5736
    @john5736 Месяц назад +6

    Add some cayenne pepper powder to season the tasty cams. I did buy one of these to test out.

  • @trailcamerasinnewengland0112
    @trailcamerasinnewengland0112 Месяц назад

    Interesting video. Cool capture of the bobcat & lots of of bear activity! Thanks for sharing! 👍

  • @AndrewMoizer
    @AndrewMoizer Месяц назад +11

    How about setting up the camera in pairs so you might get a video of the “attack” to see if it gives and hints as to why they seem to be so attracted to them?

    • @Dustin_the_wind
      @Dustin_the_wind Месяц назад

      It's pretty obvious if you think about it. It is unlike anything else they encounter, and probably a hint of scent to it.

    • @brucea550
      @brucea550 Месяц назад

      @@Dustin_the_wind I also wonder if the electronics somehow irritates them. Animals hear things at different frequencies so maybe it’s not silent to them?

    • @meschwartz
      @meschwartz Месяц назад

      You need to get the bears some bear toys to play with. Maybe a rubber ducky or two.

  • @robertr4715
    @robertr4715 Месяц назад +2

    It’s interesting the bears notice where the cameras are. Smart animals!

    • @charles-y2z6c
      @charles-y2z6c Месяц назад

      Smarter than him, that's for sure

  • @Roboticus_Prime_RC
    @Roboticus_Prime_RC Месяц назад +12

    Well, stop buying such tasty cameras!

  • @JAFO.
    @JAFO. Месяц назад +6

    Spray Lysol & sprinkle cayenne pepper on & around the camera & strap, maybe even spray down the tree & strap with bear spray so they loose interest after getting a snoot full..?

  • @Forgeinthegorge
    @Forgeinthegorge Месяц назад

    Bears are fun to observe. It’s interesting that the bears there are so interested in your cameras. I have seven cameras out on my place, and numerous bears around, but they don’t bother the cameras much - only twice in about ten years of putting out the cameras. I Also don’t have the same issue with them damaging timber. Lots of orchards and vineyards around me - a more convenient food source might keep them out of the trees.

  • @bobjarrard
    @bobjarrard Месяц назад +5

    As with traps they are scenting the cameras. Also, the look like food in a can. Electric fence or bear spray with a proximity trigger. Bob in Nevada

    • @kenbrown2808
      @kenbrown2808 Месяц назад

      actually, tests have shown that bears like spicy residual bear spray.

  • @faithwalker5196
    @faithwalker5196 Месяц назад +3

    I like your channel. Thanks for sharing.

  • @Dustin_the_wind
    @Dustin_the_wind Месяц назад

    That's a bummer. The curiosity is to much for them to bear.
    Thanks, Wilson.

  • @jasonstonier1732
    @jasonstonier1732 Месяц назад

    I can bearly wait for your next video!

  • @ibelieveican3138
    @ibelieveican3138 Месяц назад +9

    Bigfoot, shapeshifting into a bear to remove the camera, so it can shapeshift back into a Bigfoot and wander more freely undetected.

    • @GlorifiedG-z9c
      @GlorifiedG-z9c Месяц назад

      I think you are on to something

    • @johnmead8437
      @johnmead8437 Месяц назад

      Is that alter identity to howtohunt....

  • @dalexanderw
    @dalexanderw Месяц назад +5

    I think you bear some responsibility :)

  • @AzimuthAviation
    @AzimuthAviation Месяц назад

    " These dang people keep leaving their plastic stuff out here in my yard. Grrr!!!!": Bear Sept 10, 2024

  • @MLZ1957
    @MLZ1957 Месяц назад

    They know you are watching them and they don't like it! LOL

  • @OutbackCottageOz
    @OutbackCottageOz Месяц назад +1

    🐻 just playing Hide'n'Seek with you - They hide the Camera and the Man Seeks it out!

  • @N4HHE
    @N4HHE Месяц назад +2

    Your cameras must look like picnic baskets to Yogi Bear.

  • @danielburch436
    @danielburch436 23 дня назад

    You should include the bear in the movie credits, maybe leave him a pizza or a Big Mac

  • @michaelmaynard8079
    @michaelmaynard8079 Месяц назад +1

    I have found they pick up human scent and that is why they check them out would love to help you with that problem. It is amazing how many you get on camera.

  • @mpsorrentino
    @mpsorrentino Месяц назад +3

    It's possible the bears are hearing some frequency from the trail cameras that are causing them to attack, another RUclipsr has a similar issue with his bees, cellphone, and Bluetooth microphone whatever signal the bees pick up causes them to swarm the microphone and cellphone.

    • @brucea550
      @brucea550 Месяц назад

      That’s my theory too. I don’t think it’s curiosity but irritation.

  • @nearlynormal2293
    @nearlynormal2293 Месяц назад +1

    Get a cheap plastic container that fits on top of the camera. Tape it on with just well enough so a light breeze won't blow it off. Add a liberal helping of ground black pepper and cayenne pepper. Bears like to come around and stick their noses in things and take a big sniff. A cope sniffs of that mixture just might satisfy Mr. Bears curiosity about trail cams. It only takes once for dogs to figure out not to sniff around black pepper.
    There's also a commercial product (that used to be called "Critter Ridder" ) that you sprinkle on dogs favorite pee spot. They take one whiff and it puckers them right up. Of course bears would probably eat it, but it might be worth a try.

  • @mycocoaone
    @mycocoaone Месяц назад +1

    It is their home too. Live with them peacefully.

    • @charles-y2z6c
      @charles-y2z6c Месяц назад

      The bears don't want to live with him, humans destroy nature for un natural reasons. He has taken enough of their property

  • @clintchapman4319
    @clintchapman4319 Месяц назад

    Those aren't bears... They're game camera salesmen in disguise.

  • @dgoodman1484
    @dgoodman1484 Месяц назад +2

    Wait till they start eating the seats in your atv’s! That’s lots of fun! lol Looked like a pretty respectable male in that first set! 👍🏼

    • @janistan
      @janistan Месяц назад

      Well... haven't you seen the seat in Wilson's tractor? A nasty bear ripped it up. -No nice things for Wilson!

  • @MsdMakingSawDust
    @MsdMakingSawDust Месяц назад

    I just couldn’t bear to watching any more…😂😂

  • @renthal971
    @renthal971 Месяц назад

    What camera do use to film your adventues, and do you use more then one?

  • @JarheadCrayonEater
    @JarheadCrayonEater Месяц назад +1

    Whenever the camera goes, there it is.

  • @calebdoner
    @calebdoner Месяц назад +2

    It is bear season in Oregon, ya know...

  • @oneshoepilot3943
    @oneshoepilot3943 Месяц назад +1

    Cayenne pepper in a balloon attached around the camera. Of course no need to blow up the balloon or balloons, but a couple of bites on it they might leave them alone. You could try household ammonia in balloons instead of pepper. Once or two tastes of the ammonia and they will remember cameras taste bad.

  • @ericrice6748
    @ericrice6748 Месяц назад

    Wilson, here on the East Coast we have more bears around my home than we do at deer camp 20min west. We have lots of them there bears in PA also!!!

  • @VideoMazk
    @VideoMazk Месяц назад +1

    Hot pepper, like others said, might work. It might repel other animals too though. It would likely get washed away from the 1st rain that happens. Are there waterproof capsules that would be broken open by anything messing with/biting them? DIY aluminum foil pouches?
    P.S. Do you think detritus covered root flares could be killing some of the old growth trees?

  • @Dashbshots
    @Dashbshots Месяц назад

    I've only had a bear bite my cameras twice in the last 25-30 years. First time was with my first 35mm film game camera. I often hang them high and use lock boxes, cables with locks and python locks. I don't understand why the cameras no longer have plastic loops for locks so anyone can mess with the sd card, settings and batteries.

  • @scottperine8027
    @scottperine8027 Месяц назад +2

    Bear Cam!!!

  • @eamonnmckeown6770
    @eamonnmckeown6770 Месяц назад +7

    Bears are such Luddites.

  • @MicahHughes-y9t
    @MicahHughes-y9t Месяц назад +1

    Try leaving a “ pic-a-nic “ basket for Yogi and he would not mess with the camera

  • @timothybrawley7909
    @timothybrawley7909 Месяц назад +1

    I believe that bear thought that this was a government spy thing. It seemed like she wasn't happy about it.

  • @bryantillotson8243
    @bryantillotson8243 Месяц назад +1

    You need to have a tailgate meeting with the bears and explain to them that the cameras are not a chew toy.😅

  • @janetconnors4591
    @janetconnors4591 Месяц назад

    Where is this located?

  • @Lazarus-aap
    @Lazarus-aap Месяц назад

    Maybe you could spray a scent on them that bears dont like. I think right now they're intrigued by the smell

  • @MelODeon-l9b
    @MelODeon-l9b Месяц назад

    A lot of these attacks appear to begin with the perp investigating above the camera lens. I wonder if it's something about the motion sensor that initially attracts their attention?

  • @robbobcat7286
    @robbobcat7286 Месяц назад

    Bears can’t even take a dump in woods without someone watching. Creepy!

  • @bard44
    @bard44 Месяц назад +7

    try putting some bear spray on the camera. just a suggestion.

    • @AWoodworkersLife
      @AWoodworkersLife Месяц назад

      Bear spray cross contaminates really easily. Be sure to wear disposable gloves if you try this.

    • @charles-y2z6c
      @charles-y2z6c Месяц назад

      Why? We are rooting for the bears. Its their forest and they couldn't care less what the deed grantor says.

  • @bennichols1113
    @bennichols1113 Месяц назад +1

    Not a problem for me. Glad its a critter I don't have to deal with.

  • @JohnComeOnMan
    @JohnComeOnMan Месяц назад +2

    These grizzly encounters are bearly believable!

  • @saltymofo5870
    @saltymofo5870 Месяц назад +1

    Let me tell you friend, bears are like that nation wide

  • @calebdoner
    @calebdoner Месяц назад

    I bought the same camera on your recommendation. I did notice that at night it will turn on red lights for IR illumination. However these attacks are occuring during the day. I wonder if it is emitting a high pich noise (like a dog whistle) that the bears can hear, but we can't.

  • @mattwernecke2342
    @mattwernecke2342 Месяц назад

    That might be a tree the bear likes to mark. The camera frustrated him. You see him pacing around. Best to move the camera to another tree.

  • @coriellallan1620
    @coriellallan1620 Месяц назад +4

    Mint

  • @charles-y2z6c
    @charles-y2z6c Месяц назад

    Maybe bears are thinking this is why I cant have a nice forest they keep putting these dumb cameras here and I cant poop or eat in peace?

  • @D-B-Cooper
    @D-B-Cooper Месяц назад +1

    The bears are pissed because their trees keep disappearing.

  • @addictedtobedrock5282
    @addictedtobedrock5282 Месяц назад

    Wow, looks like mid day is an active time there.

  • @bob_frazier
    @bob_frazier Месяц назад

    My bears climb into my apple trees.

  • @kyleanderson6201
    @kyleanderson6201 Месяц назад

    Sounds like it's time for some bear sausage

  • @silvieb2024
    @silvieb2024 Месяц назад

    Would putting some bear spray around the camera be helpful?

  • @donaldblank8873
    @donaldblank8873 Месяц назад

    No matter what if you put something on a tree a bear will notice it immediately. You must put it in a metal box with bolts cut sharp sticking out the front so bears cannot put their teeth through the lense. Cable lock it to a tree.

  • @bdcovey
    @bdcovey Месяц назад

    Michael, this is not bear related, but what kind of hat are you wearing in the video (and not the hard hat)?

  • @kdegraa
    @kdegraa Месяц назад

    How do you stop the bears from wrecking your home when no one is there?

  • @jdhprogames
    @jdhprogames Месяц назад

    Ive just moved to bear country and im a bit hesitant about going into the forest with or without my dog because im from the city and am not sure what to do it I came across a bear. Can you do a video on how to be safe in bear country? Getting a gun isn't an option for me right now. Thanks!

  • @waydwnbama-way3089
    @waydwnbama-way3089 Месяц назад

    Well , I can say I've seen the inside of a bears mouth and lived thru it.

  • @TepidJean
    @TepidJean Месяц назад +1

    Do you think it's a smell thing, or is it possible the camera makes a ultrasonic sound that alerts them to George Orwell's fiction turned reality on the mountain?

    • @Bushman9
      @Bushman9 Месяц назад

      I’m going with smell.
      Even older trail cams without any Bluetooth signal can be destroyed by bears.

  • @carolewarner101
    @carolewarner101 Месяц назад

    I wonder what would happen if you sprayed some cayenne (or even hotter) pepper spray on there, or better yet some bear spray! Then you could let it dry before you put up the camera. Once it gets rehydrated by the bear's saliva, it'll burn like hell and hopefully put them off messing with them after they've gotten a mouthful a few times and start associating that negative experience with the cameras. Worth a try anyway.

  • @daviddesilva4971
    @daviddesilva4971 Месяц назад +1

    Maybe they are catching your scent. Latex gloves when mounting the camera might help. Thxs for the vids!

    • @dgoodman1484
      @dgoodman1484 Месяц назад +2

      I’d guess the plastic off gassing smells like possible food 🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @VideoMazk
      @VideoMazk Месяц назад +1

      @@dgoodman1484 Humans do put a lot of food inside plastic.

  • @SPACEMIKEB
    @SPACEMIKEB Месяц назад +1

    Stop putting BBQ sauce on the cameras!

  • @michaelg8482
    @michaelg8482 Месяц назад

    tweekers and bears are unpredictable forest dwellers always lurking in the night for opportunities to steel or damage,what to do ?

  • @Norman_Fleming
    @Norman_Fleming Месяц назад

    Is it possible to use the cameras without installing a phone app? I miss the old days of physical controls. Might not survive the bears, but I don't have bears.

  • @LindsayWilson-vj1wc
    @LindsayWilson-vj1wc Месяц назад

    perhaps bears want a little privacy when they are doing what bears do in the woods.

  • @mnemosynevermont5524
    @mnemosynevermont5524 Месяц назад +1

    I'll buy a tshirt saying "THAT's not right"

    • @brucea550
      @brucea550 Месяц назад +1

      I was thinking ‘bears are the reason we can’t have nice things’. E

  • @cascademtman5901
    @cascademtman5901 Месяц назад +1

    My guess is the salt off your hands is what attracting the bears.

  • @chowtimewithruss1411
    @chowtimewithruss1411 Месяц назад

    Maybe the bears want royalties? Is there a bear union?

  • @kenbrown2808
    @kenbrown2808 Месяц назад +2

    obviously, you're buying the wrong flavor cameras. try spraying them with air freshener. that would work on me.

  • @gerry343
    @gerry343 Месяц назад

    Do they sniff out the cameras from where you have been handling them?

    • @charles-y2z6c
      @charles-y2z6c Месяц назад

      A bear has a sense of smell 2,000 times greater than a human. To the bears he stinks and they don't like it

  • @TheLandbo
    @TheLandbo Месяц назад

    Fortunately, we don't have bears in this country, but over several years there was a deer that used one of my trail cameras as a mineral stone. I cannot understand that a cheap Chinese trail camera should contain healthy minerals for a deer. Even though several different deer passed by, only one was supposed to "taste" the camera.

  • @KenAustin-i4x
    @KenAustin-i4x 6 дней назад

    well, I wouldn't like all that surveillance either, in my private mud bog. those cameras must make some sounds or smells. they go right for them ! the black bears always look to me like a couple of small to large guys in a bear costume wearing black fuzzy slippers. they definitely have an agenda. interesting that the birds seem to like the wallows as well. us humans are just too dumb to know what matters, I think. I'm just a dummy from Alberta.

  • @DJWRailroad
    @DJWRailroad Месяц назад

    Maybe not to you, but hilarious to us. Now WHAT could bears possibly find interesting about technology? Possibly smarter than we give them credit for, in this case, messing with you...and KNOWING it!

  • @dennismutz8221
    @dennismutz8221 Месяц назад

    Maybe bears are just camera shy. Lol

  • @pleinairbarnettoutdoors
    @pleinairbarnettoutdoors Месяц назад

    Who needs attractant when you have such cameras 😅

  • @smaggies
    @smaggies Месяц назад +1

    Those Bears must smell a human scent, look into some kind of spray or something. thanks

  • @mcsawmill
    @mcsawmill Месяц назад

    The bears are upset because the fox said you were putting them on onlyfans...

  • @rickski3769
    @rickski3769 Месяц назад +1

    they smell your deodorant

    • @charles-y2z6c
      @charles-y2z6c Месяц назад

      They can definitely smell his stench. Its not all visual a bears sense of smell is one of the best in the animal kingdom, over 2,000 times better than a human

  • @Wheelloader__
    @Wheelloader__ Месяц назад

    If a bear put a camera in your house what would you do 😁

  • @johnberry1107
    @johnberry1107 Месяц назад

    Drones are next

  • @donellison6445
    @donellison6445 Месяц назад

    I think cut wages and mount a little higher just saying may work.

  • @Token_Civilian
    @Token_Civilian Месяц назад

    Curious bears.....

  • @Nickrioblanco1
    @Nickrioblanco1 Месяц назад

    They don't respect your 1st amendment right to record video. Shame on those bears!🤪

  • @cwness4587
    @cwness4587 Месяц назад

    Walking in the woods with bears all and no gun. I'd say spray but that's about as good as you are without a gun. I'll have to keep an eye at scary bear attacks to see when you show up. Oh and I don't care how much time you have spent there and are still OK.

  • @jaybeliever1479
    @jaybeliever1479 Месяц назад +2

    What about putting some pepper spray on the tree all around the camera?

  • @billbertagnoli4226
    @billbertagnoli4226 Месяц назад

    Obviously not concerned about
    Bears enough to carry spray or
    A firearm.

  • @johnharris7353
    @johnharris7353 Месяц назад

    Feed them make friends!

  • @CrimeVid
    @CrimeVid Месяц назад

    Interesting this, I have seen many many videos of bears just giving cameras just a cursory sniff, wolves just seem to ignore them as do bobcats. Deer always notice them for some reason. I wonder why your cameras get so much attention, perhaps you should stop storing them in the Larder !

  • @thekiltedsawyer
    @thekiltedsawyer Месяц назад

    Luckily black bears.
    Grizzly would be a different outcome lol

  • @my2cents945
    @my2cents945 Месяц назад +1

    They're Karen bears. You don't have permission to film me, I want to speak to your manager.

  • @BillHale-p9d
    @BillHale-p9d Месяц назад

    Bear stew is real yummy 😊

  • @rickytickbuku
    @rickytickbuku Месяц назад +2

    Maybe don't pick your nose before playing with cameras. Bears love boogers, everybody knows that.

  • @henrybarker1159
    @henrybarker1159 Месяц назад

    You have too many bears when is hunting season

  • @scottmattoon9054
    @scottmattoon9054 Месяц назад +4

    Do you have to carry a gun with you most of the time?