I was at he Legion Hall door, just locking up after our jam last night, when I got the text above from my wife. I figured that by the time I got home the bear would have cleaned out the bird feeder and be long gone, but when I drove down the driveway, I saw that it was still balanced on a stump, pulling the bird feeder toward his face and chomping down the sunflower seeds.
I thought that the bear would immediately take off when the car came down the driveway, but it just kept munching away. I didn’t have my camcorder, so I wasn’t able to take a closeup picture, but I did have my iPhone, and I drove closer and closer, to the bear, in hopes of getting a photo.
It was fairly dark, but the iPhone did a pretty fair job of lightening the scene. You can see the photo below.
This is the neighborhood bear, which has been around for years. It is a smart bear who isn’t aggressive and really doesn’t cause many problems, except trashing the fruit trees in the fall, if I don’t pick the apples off before it comes. I can identify the bear by the white “bib” on its chest.
I took the bird feeder down this morning, so the bear will not be tempted to come around. The poor birds will just have to fend for themselves.
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