We have one of those metal poles that you stick in the ground and then you can hang either hanging baskets or bird feeders on them. We hang bird feeders on it.
So I get up this morning and the metal pole has been bent in half and all the sunflower seeds are gone. Darn dog didnt make a peep all night. She is old and a very deep sleeper though.
Also the bird feeder is right outside the screened in porch that the kitties have access to so I bet they got a good show! Lol I wish I could have seen their freaked out faces.
Sounds like you’re from my neck of the woods. Folks living up on Hillside never put out bird seed. And more than one dog has become a snack-on-a-leash. One of the guys I work with is constantly chasing black bears off his deck.
I’m in eastern ontario. In a small town called Deep River. We’ve only been here for a year and a half and its the first time that we know of that a bear has been in the yard. I hope he doesnt make a habit of visiting the bird seed restaurant!
Last year in Colorado one of the environmental groups bought up most of the bear licenses around the Spanish Peaks and that, combined with the drought, drove the overabundant buggers off the mountain and into the towns. There was bear scat all over the streets of La Veta and you couldn’t let kids play outside. One of them even ran into the damn grocery store and tore hell out of everything.
We hardly saw any of them up in the canyon where we stay. They were all down in town.
Bears are opportunists. If you put more seed out, it will be back, and then you will have a hell of a time getting rid of it. The eventual sad scenario is that the bear has to be destroyed. They love sunflower seeds, so I would suggest you only put them out in the winter for the chickadees or redpoles, or whatever you get there in winter, and forget it in the summer.
