Glad to announce that bookings are now open for the 2025–26 winter season for eagle photography and watching hides. We offer two types of hides: the private Premium hide and …
A Fertile Year for Bears in Estonia 2024?
Usually, bears rarely come to our hides with their little cubs because they are very cautious. Unavoidably, people entering the hide leave behind scents, other bears and wild animals roam …
Dogs and the Brown Bear Hide
Recently there have been several questions about the possibility of taking a dog to the Brown Bear Hide. Unfortunately, it is not possible. It is true that every dog and …
Public transport to our Brown Bear Watching and Photography Hide
Lately, there have been lots of questions on how it’s possible to get to the bear hide via public transport. First, you would have to take a bus or a …
Natourest and the Brown Bear Hide figuring in media recently
In August 2021, the team of the Estonian TV series “Metslased” (meaning “Savages”) visited our Brown Bear Hide. Our team member Peep was there to give them an overview of …
What are bears doing in January
In January, Brown Bears are hibernating. The first half of January is also the time when pregnant females give birth. Usually, they have 1-3 cubs, but in some cases also …
Brown Bear is Estonia’s animal of the year 2022
We are happy to announce that Brown Bear was chosen to be the animal of the year 2022. Not that choosing any other animal would have made us less happy. …
Alutaguse Bear Forest Fund Update 2021
Looking back at the season Another year with highs and lows has passed, but things were definetely better than in 2020. Unfortunately due to COVID-19 and travel restrictions, we weren’t …
Wolves near the Brown Bear hide
During the last week of February, we cooperated with Hunt – Eesti rahvusloom (Wolf – Estonia’s national mammal) and made 2 very spirited wolf-themed tours. In most parts of Estonia, …
Articles about the “Bear Watching Hide” experience
Our spring season was pretty much canceled a few days before heading out to our first tour of the year and sadly we did not manage to make any tours …