Bears

[hoser]

The weather has turned warmer and the possibility of bears waking up is pretty high. Today I'm gonna be taking down our bird feeders as in the past I waited too long and had to replace a couple. Usually they don't come out this time of the year, but the temps just may trigger a wake-up.

 

[GroundSweeper]

I used to have a shelled peanut feeder - little wire mesh tube of a feeder. I had to try and bend that thing back into useful shape after a bear mauled it. Never ended up using it anymore. Poor nuthatches don't get free peanuts anymore

I had to get a bear proof trash can early on when we moved here too. Bugger cost me more to ship here from Maine of all places I think it was. Every once in awhile I'd find it across the road but other than put teeth holes in it, it worked. I then setup a bear 'unwelcome' mat that I set my trash can on, gives them just enough of a jolt to keep them away from it entirely.

 

[Tpmetal]

The weather has turned warmer and the possibility of bears waking up is pretty high. Today I'm gonna be taking down our bird feeders as in the past I waited too long and had to replace a couple. Usually they don't come out this time of the year, but the temps just may trigger a wake-up.

Years and years ago we got sick of the black bears tearing down the feeder pole. So we ran cattle fence up and down the side. The bear threw a fit first time he got zapped. Feeders can be left up year round now.

 

[sube]

I had planted about 20 walnut trees behind my place they all had tubes along with a 1/2 inch condulet pole 7 feet high for support . Anyhow I go back there and WTF who would bend all these down . Went to pay my taxes a mile away and this guy was a bird freak feeders all over his yard bent and pulled down .
He showed me on his garage a bird house attached to the eve at least 7 feet from the ground where there were claw marks in his fascia where a bear had been swinging at it till he knocked it down.
A week later in the morning my dogs came in the bedroom and were growling at the 6x4 foot window I look out and there's this big bear bending my only feeder in the yard down .
Then I hear from my neighbor that the dnr caught a bear people were feeding in the cul de sac by the river 1 mile from my house it was spring and it weighed 332 pounds that's a big bear .
Week later coming home 3 blocks from my house there's a bear running in front of my car lol. sube

 

[stetam]

Yeah they are a pain. 2 years ago they busted up two of my young apple trees pretty bad and then crapped in my yard to insult me even more.

Steve