RE: estimating the size of a bear
Boy it's a tough call with those pictures. I would say that it is a small well-fed young one. Just looks like his ears are too big and his head a little too "pointy"in that first picture, imo. That one is really hard to tell.
The bigger black bears get--the "rounder" they get. A big bear is gonna have i big "rounded" head, big round belly, and little round ears.