I am into bears, 2 legged not 4 legged, but on Mon. evening about 9 pm I had the 4 legged kind in my back yard. I was reading the newspaper facing the open sliding patio door and the next thing I know a bear is heading towards the bird feeder which is about 15 feet from the patio door. My deck is about 1 foot off the ground and the BBQ (which we had just used about 3 hours earlier) was also on the deck. The bear had no interest in it however, just the bird feeder. I quickly shut the patio door and all the windows on the rear side of the house since they are the casement style and it could easily have ripped them off. I got out the camcorder and filmed him for a few minutes. He sat on his rear and reached up and pulled the bird feeder towards him which was hanging on one of those metal flower pot poles. I would guess that he was about 5 feet high when sitting on his rear end. He eventually got the bird feeder down and took it up the hill behind the house but then came back looking for more. Eventually he walked around to the front of the house, past the front door on the sidewalk and then down the driveway, cross the road and down into the marsh. About 10 min. later back he came, up the driveway and then I don't know where he went since there are no windows on that side of the house. I presume he wandered over to the neighbours yard. Needless to say, I have been a little nervous when heading outside because who knows where it could be. And I won't be putting the bird feeder back up for awhile.
Gary
Gary
