In a UVB post of yesterday evening (April 28) Bill Schults reported that, about an hour after dark, a large bear was on his Elm Street porch. Because his feeders had been brought inside for the night, there were no losses.

This morning I learned that around midnight, also last night, a large bear tore down and wrecked two tubular feeders which had been suspended far apart and well above the floor of the porch on another house, also on Elm Street, but on the lower part of the street, roughly a half mile distant from Bill's location. When an occupant of that house turned on the porch light, the bear fled southward between houses into dense woods on steep terrain bordered by Main and Elm Streets.

It seems likely that the same bear was involved in both cases.

George Clark
Norwich, VT

 



 


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