I did not know it was a law. I took down my sunflower seed feeder (which was hit by bear as we watched 15 years ago) but still have my tubular feeder with niger seed active as well as some bedraggled suet.
The tubular feeder had up to thirty goldfinches feeding daily all through April and now has ten to fifteen pine siskins all the time.
Should I take it down?
Mike
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Subject: [UVB] Purported Summer Bird Feeder Ban in Vermont & New HampshireA posting on yesterday's Thetford listserv asserts that on July 1, 2014 a law went into effect in Vermont banning the use of bird feeders beginning early in the spring. HB 101 was designed to reduce the number of nuisance bears in the state that, due to HUMAN behavior, lose their fear of entering people’s yards and are, in fact, rewarded for doing so. Once a bear finds a prime source of bird seed or human food, more bears can be attracted. Not only that but the first bear will visit OTHER HOMES in the
area where it finds food, it will not just stay in your yard. This year bird feeders were to be taken down by March 15 in Vermont and March 17 in New
Hampshire and certainly no later than April 1. Bird feeders are NOT to be put out again until DECEMBER 1 or UNTIL there is a prolonged period of snow..."
Yikes! I have been oblivious of this development.I'm wondering: how are other Upper Valley birders dealing with this?
Connie Snyder
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