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They get drunk on rotten fruit sometimes.
One food source that I see evidence of all the time is rotten logs and stumps. Bears will tear into them to get at the bugs inside. As berries go out of season, alternate food sources like this get hit harder. This is one of my top forms of bear sign that I look for to determine if bears are in an area- stumps that have bark torn off, and often a big hole chewed in the side as the bear goes after termites.
Do you guys have lots of mushrooms this time of year? Bears in southern wa are crushing a lot of mushrooms right now.