Amita Guha wrote: > My inlaws have 3 bird feeders, so I arrived up there armed with a > decent-sized kit that included 2 tripods and my 400mm prime and 300mm > zoom, which I hadn't had the last time I was up there. And of course, > when we arrive, we learn that they had to take the bird feeders down > because a bear kept getting into them. Argh! Hope some of you had a more > photographic weekend than I did...
My friend Nora, who lives in Mountainville (that is near Cornwall in the Hudson Valley) had a bear try to steal one of her feeders multiple times - It seemed it was too heavy for him to lug but she took to bringing the feed part in at night and now has removed it until she figures they have gone to sleep in the winter. She did leave one suet pack hanging about 20 feet from her window and the woodpeckers paid us visits on Thanksgiving day. She was certainly not the only one on Taylor Road visited by the bear or bears - a hiker found a stash of bird feeders up on the mountain whose name I can't begin to spell, but is often day-hiked by New Yorkers who take a bus up rt 32 . Sounds like "Scuddy-munk" So the bears appear to be collectors - perhaps they are gathering them to sell on ebay :) annsan
