You can always bring you feeders in after dark. Over 42 years, I've had periodic visits from bears, but almost all visits were late afternoon or after the sun went down. Barking dogs are a very big deterrent to roaming bears, particularly for a sow with cubs. If you keep horse and supplement hay/grazing with grain & sweet feed close your barn doors at night, as well.

There are great joys to warm-weather feeding, including rose-breasted grosbeaks and indigo buntings, both of which bring begging chicks to the feeders, and hummingbirds, of course; you just have to monitor your feeding situation more closely than you do in winter when bears are sleeping.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:35 AM, margaret bragg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

At the Town of Hanover's meeting with NH Fish and Game on "Modifying Bear Behavior" last week, F & G stressed the importance of feeding birds only between Dec 1st and April 1st. Black oil sunflower seeds are a big attraction for bears...

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