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Bear visit Friday night
We live in the North Georgia mountains and there is plenty of wildlife to be seen . Saturday morning my wife was out doing the bird feeder run when she noticed one of her suet feeders was missing ! The feeder and the hook it was hanging on ......... gone .
So I started to walk down one of the game paths in the woods and about 80' in I found the feeder , the metal cage was mangled . I brought it back for my wife to see . Today we decided to pull the video cards from the two game cameras we have set up . The video camera that is attached to the tree with the missing feeder has two pics of the bear's face ! The one pic is the bear looking up we presume at the feeder . I think the bear was only 2-3' away from the camera and he or she looks big . It sure gets your attention knowing the bear was only 50' from the house . |
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Can you share the bear pics?
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Our youngest daughter sent my wife some pictures of a bear knocking down their bird feeder yesterday.
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People are funny....
They call their "bear feeders" cute names like "bird feeders" 
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Here's the close up of the handsome devil
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Bears gotta eat too.
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He looks as though he has eaten too much.....and the woods is too far away.
Best to set out some Charmin next to the feeder.
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Went running with my dog two days ago and saw the first black bear of the season and 100yards off the road. He was very busy being a bear.
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Not a very big bear IMHO. The big guys have their head become bigger and bigger while the snout and jaws stay pretty similar in size. If you have a shot of the ears, you should post! That's usually the tell tale sign. Ears you can clearly see standing off from the head indicate a small bear. If you can barely (no pun intended) see the ears because they are buried by the skull, then you know you have a big one.
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^^^^ Nope...unless it's a 50# teddy I would still yabba dabba doo doo myself
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I bet a angry or scared 50 pound bear could mess you up real bad. A 50 pound dog can put a hurt on you, and he does not have the claws of a bear.
My plan is the never test my theory, and let it remain pure speculation.
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I was only giving general guidance on the size of the bear. I didn't mean to say it is no big deal because it is "only" 200 lbs. Bears are very fast and athletic and will go at it with claws on all 4 legs and as set of dog teeth to boot. I would be careful around any bear, down to a cub.
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03-30-2020, 08:29 AM
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When in the BC interior at a friends cabin, she asked her husband to go into town and pick some apples from "the good tree" at her moms place.
How do I know which tree is the good tree? he asked. The tree with the bear poop under it is the good tree..... Fruit trees in the BC interior are like a buffet for bears!
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close encounter sitting in my driveway
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