Paul has brought me more pictures from our trail cameras at the bear tree. This first one shows a bear standing beside the tree and the second, a bear near the adjacent pond, which is almost dry at this season and filled with tall yellow grasses.

This video is a compilation of shorter strips taken during a 12 day period at the bear tree. Some of the pictures were taken at night. Notice how the bears examine the tree to determine what other beard have recently visited and left their scent messages. Then they rub their bodies against the tree, leaving messages of their own. On leaving the tree they walk in a peculiar stiff-legged way, pressing each foot firmly into the ground to leave distinct prints.
https://vimeo.com/188591557

Notice how fat the bears are at this season. Soon they will go into dens for the winter, eating nothing until they emerge next spring.

Paul also prepared two shorter videos of bears on the trail that leads to and from the bear tree. This first one shows a bear that has found the monitoring camera and has moved up close to examine it:
https://vimeo.com/188596905

Sometimes bears actually remove cameras from their positions affixed to trees, damaging cameras in the process. Paul found one camera that had been carried in the mouth of a bear quite some distance along a trail. It had taken pictures of the bear's legs and feet while being carried!

The last video is again of bears on the trail. Notice the bear tree in the distance-where the first bear  examines it before quickly moving on; https://vimeo.com/188597938