Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?
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We've been asked to stop feeding birds via bird feeders due to disease. Still throw breadcrumbs.
Bears in your back yard!
We've got some bison, beavers and boars now reintroduced to England. But bears no, while wolves, and lynx are still being discussed I understand.Ventosa viri restabit
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@wtg I feed year round, can't resist. I guy bags of shelled peanuts for the squirrels. They know me now and make themselves known if the food isn't out.
A few weeks ago a honking huge black bear broke the door to the entry room off it's hinges--basically a shed attached to the side of the house. That door is a modern wood and plastic thing. The door into the kitchen is a solid wood outside door and that remains intact and I expect it to remain so.
The reason the bear was able to barrel through into the 'shed' is that the piers it rests on heave horribly in the freeze/thaw cycle every late winter to the point where the door doesn't even latch shut any more and I have to keep it closed by propping a spade against it.
The 'shed' is where I'd been keeping the bird seed... in a plastic bin. But, unfortunately, the week before this occurrence, I'd accidentally forgot to prop the door closed and the bear was able to walk right in, during the night of course, and discover that beyond the door was the tasty treats he'd been looking for. Hence, his subsequent forcing his way in.
It hasn't happened since and I don't think it will happen again. I keep the seed in the house now. I saw a bear twice today, but I'm pretty sure it isn't the same one. This one seems like a one-year old, newly on his own.
They're so cute when they're young! A pic from a few years ago, on the wood pile:
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We've been asked to stop feeding birds via bird feeders due to disease. Still throw breadcrumbs.
Bears in your back yard!
We've got some bison, beavers and boars now reintroduced to England. But bears no, while wolves, and lynx are still being discussed I understand. -
@wtg I feed year round, can't resist. I guy bags of shelled peanuts for the squirrels. They know me now and make themselves known if the food isn't out.
A few weeks ago a honking huge black bear broke the door to the entry room off it's hinges--basically a shed attached to the side of the house. That door is a modern wood and plastic thing. The door into the kitchen is a solid wood outside door and that remains intact and I expect it to remain so.
The reason the bear was able to barrel through into the 'shed' is that the piers it rests on heave horribly in the freeze/thaw cycle every late winter to the point where the door doesn't even latch shut any more and I have to keep it closed by propping a spade against it.
The 'shed' is where I'd been keeping the bird seed... in a plastic bin. But, unfortunately, the week before this occurrence, I'd accidentally forgot to prop the door closed and the bear was able to walk right in, during the night of course, and discover that beyond the door was the tasty treats he'd been looking for. Hence, his subsequent forcing his way in.
It hasn't happened since and I don't think it will happen again. I keep the seed in the house now. I saw a bear twice today, but I'm pretty sure it isn't the same one. This one seems like a one-year old, newly on his own.
They're so cute when they're young! A pic from a few years ago, on the wood pile:
@Bernard wins the fauna of the day award! My squirrels are nothing compared to your bear.
I keep the bird seed in some old metal tins in the garage. The biggest critters we might have would be raccoons, but they've never tried to get to the seed stored in there.
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