Lesser known wild foods
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Lesser known wild foods
I noticed today that the bears had been feeding heavily on red osier dogwood berries. That got me wondering what other lesser known natural foods sources everyone watches
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Maple leaves is a new one I never knew of until singing bridge and dan mentioned it.
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Re: Lesser known wild foods
Bears love Mushrooms
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Interesting topic.
I believe wild cranberries are something to think about. I found some in some bear scat I ran across in October last fall. It's something I have to investigate further myself.
I believe wild cranberries are something to think about. I found some in some bear scat I ran across in October last fall. It's something I have to investigate further myself.
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Mike Foss wrote:Bears love Mushrooms
I've told people this for years and they didn't believe me
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Choke cherries in August and early September
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X3 on mushrooms. Don't overlook insect, grub, egg-laden rotten logs.
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Thorn apple for the first two weeks of season
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Mike Foss wrote:Bears love Mushrooms
So do deer. When morel mushroom hunting. When I start jumping deer and seeing disturbed leaves I know I'm close
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On years that frogs or forest tent caterpillars are plentiful they appear to make up a lot of there fall diet
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swampyak wrote:On years that frogs or forest tent caterpillars are plentiful they appear to make up a lot of there fall diet
Those are good ones right there!
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I was recently into a spot that a bear was feeding heavily on sand cherries and wild grapes
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Bears eat beech buds and leaves when they need to. I have seen them in sassafras trees eating the fruit. Serviceberry, elderberry, hawthorne fruit. If you have ever watched many bears moving along in the wild, they are constantly moving and searching for food. They can eat so many things.
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The big white mushrooms! They devour 'em! They strip some kinds of pine trees and eat the cambium layer under the bark.
They say hazelnuts are a big food where they are found. I suppose that's true but I have lots of hazelnuts on my property and I've never seen where bears actually have been eating them. I have been told that the bears climb up into the bushes and eat the nuts. They have a lot of nuts on them this year so I will be checking on them often.
They say hazelnuts are a big food where they are found. I suppose that's true but I have lots of hazelnuts on my property and I've never seen where bears actually have been eating them. I have been told that the bears climb up into the bushes and eat the nuts. They have a lot of nuts on them this year so I will be checking on them often.
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Freelance Bowhunter wrote:The big white mushrooms! They devour 'em! They strip some kinds of pine trees and eat the cambium layer under the bark.
They say hazelnuts are a big food where they are found. I suppose that's true but I have lots of hazelnuts on my property and I've never seen where bears actually have been eating them. I have been told that the bears climb up into the bushes and eat the nuts. They have a lot of nuts on them this year so I will be checking on them often.
I was just in the Adirondacks and must agree, definitely a lot of hazelnuts this year. I am sure bears go after them. How much they go after them just depends on bear population and what else is available in the area.
Another lesser known food source (around here anyway) is skunk cabbage in the spring. As soon as bears start moving around in the spring around here, they are looking for leftover acorns (if there are any, usually not), if no acorns they are looking for skunk cabbage, or people's bird feeders...
Some do. Some don't. I just might...
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