Thursday afternoon, shortly after lunch, I was wandering by the doors that open onto our deck. As is my habit, I looked out to see what birds were present at our feeders. To my great surprise, not only were there no birds present, but there were no feeders in view!<\/p>\n
I headed out the doors to investigate. I found empty feeders strewn about and the steel pole upon which the feeders were once mounted bent over at a right angle at ground level.<\/p>\n
I knew at once that we had been visited by a bear… in broad daylight no less!<\/p>\n
This conclusion was confirmed, maybe an hour later, when Joan summoned me to the deck doors. The vandal had returned! She\/he was looking to see if they had missed any seeds during their first visit. I took two quick photos through the kitchen window before heading outside to chase the miscreant away.<\/p>\n
As soon as I opened the doors to the deck the critter looked up and as I put a foot out of the door she\/he headed into the woods at top speed. A good response!<\/p>\n
Joan was sitting out on the deck later that afternoon and thought that she heard the bear in the woods, but we have seen neither hide nor hair since.<\/p>\n
Alas, in the interests of not habituating a wild creature to humans, our bird feeding is over at least until December when the bears begin their hibernation.<\/p>\n
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