Originally posted by OrchidJulie OMG! In your yard?! Did he <it?> topple the feeder or is that debris from something else?
We have bears, but not (to my knowledge) anywhere near the metro area, at least not any more. When I was a teenager there may have been one or two out in the far outer 'burbs closer to the Everglades. A friend said she saw one in some woods, nothing but housing developments there now.
Yes, in my back yard. Yes, it toppled the feeder. Primarily after suet cakes, ripped apart one of them and bent the other. Also cleaned up all the seeds (they always do). I could construct a bear-proof feeder, but M wouldn't like the esthetics, so I just put up with them toppling the feeder and taking stuff now and then while they're out of hibernation. This one looked young and lean. The one that came before it was far bigger.I
We also have white-tail deer, opossum, raccoon, grey and red fox, at least once a coyote, and once a big mustelid, possibly a fisher or less likely a mink (the latter like to be near water).