Wild Things San Gabriels v2

Continuing my quest for black bears. I moved the camera further upstream from the original location and anchored it to a rock near a larger watering hole. There appeared to be a clear animal path above the water and below the tree. I placed it on 11/4 at noon and 4 hours later, the spot was visited by a momma bear, who bumped the camera, miraculously, into a better position. For the following two weeks, several bears and a cub passed by. If you look at the ears, there appear to be two adult bears and one cub. Also captured was a bobcat, a fox, and a buck. The camera also had about 500 videos of mule deer and mule deer butts. Very popular place for the deer. On 11/22, one of the bears lingered for a long sniffing session and left the camera face up which was the end of the videos. The camera was lucky to survive the bears and a couple of storms. It was dripping wet when I picked it up, but the SD card was dry. This run was a big success. Props to Sean for suggesting this remote canyon.


Here are a few stills: