Or some blackberry caviar!
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Found this under my stand I just put up. What left this?
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Yup, black bear.
There's a reason folks in Alaska call Henry's roof patch "bear $hit".
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From your description, young black bear perhaps in a 200 lb. range. look around a bit and see if you can find the berry patch. I would hang a camera also.
The age old question has been answered, bears do s#!t in the woods. And under tree stands. Check the seat before you sit down in the dark. Had one drop a deuce on mine some years back when we lived in NW PA.
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I thought that was Tim Hortons!?
We have Blueberry patches up here, Blueberry leaves are tasty too, so they get a bit more fiber,, but not much,,
The tough part is trying to get too'm before a danm Bear does!
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Cynthialee, I agree. It is bear scat. Used to hunt bears when I lived out west. Saw a fair amount of bear scat but none like this pile. But we didn't have blackberries out there either.
FWIW, my outside dogs have been turning inside out the last few nights, as in ticked off mad at something. The only thing I've been able to see so far with a light has been a house cat.
My thoughts exactly. A younger bear.
The blueberry patch is right next to the scat. Its down below my house about 60 yards. This entire area for miles has a lot of blackberry bushes. Any location where woods has been cleaned out or logged grows back up with blackberry bushes and mostly small maple saplings. Everyone and their brother has had their land logged around here in the last few years. So it will continue to increase.
Along this same conversation, last year during the orange army season I shot a buck that was walking on the edge of, but still in, some thick blackberry bushes. The leaves had already fallen off and I was surprised that he was in that thick stuff eating on the thorny bushes themselves. It was so thick and thorny that after I got down there, I walked past that dead buck several times, and within a few feet of him before I found him.
That place had been logged several years ago.
I went close to that area a couple months ago. I was shocked to see that some of the old logging roads/trails I had cut open had already grown about 1/3 shut. I hope to get back over there within the next few days and open up more trails and find a place up on the hillside overlooking that blueberry thicket to put up a climber. I also want to put up a ground blind in the event its raining this season.
If you look to the left about 10 feet from my stand you can see the edge of the blackberry patch.
The pile that IanH left for me was about two feet from the bottom of the ladder.
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Yes, the answer is the big bear does **** in the woods….
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Yep...a black bear. Know it well living in the Poconos at one time. Cleaned up many a mess after going through my garbage and leaving that sign on top of a garbage can lid.
Yup......Looks like poop from a larger butt hole. Might have to wait there in the stand w/ at least a .45 cal m/l , ta see what shows up. Recommendation......Turn about's fair play.....Kill it and you can cook , and make poop out of the mystery critter.
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Could it be deer? I have deer coming through my vineyard daily and I found a fist size pile like that the other day. Looks like deer pellets all globbed together from eating apples grapes, and blackberries. Most of the bear scat I have seen, albeit not much, has usually been a lot larger pile more towards the size of a cowpie. Correct me if I am wrong or I have a bear near as well.
I agree, Bear Scat. He's letting you know what he thinks of your tree stand. Semper Fi.
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Be a good idea to post a trail cam near your stand. Sometimes that scat can throw you off depending on what comes out.
Sometimes I wonder how those critters get so big scrounging on berries and such. Sometimes they like corn too.
Looks more like deer to me also. Where I live the deer eat lots of cherries and this is what their poop looks like .
My guess to is bear poop. They often gorge themselves and get loose bowels. We had apple trees in front of our cabin and my uncle had parked his white buick under one. That night a bear climbed up that tree and started eating apples and pooped all over his pretty new white Buick! He was PO'd all day because we have no running water and he had to carry buckets of water up from the creek. He was a miserable old coot so nobody helped him!
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