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To work with or around the bears, and still be able to operate a spring banding station, I have built heavy duty platform feeders. One is strong enough for a medium sized bear to climb on and sit on it (photos available), the other is shorter and is made from the base from a one of those giant TV dish people used have in their yards. The key to it: Only put out enough seed that the birds finish the feed off by end of day. I've also cleaned up all the leftovers from winter feeding. Should there be some left and a bear comes, there is no damage to feeders as they push the wire traps away and just scoop the seed into their mouth and move on. Though this should be avoided at all costs as to not encourage scavenging behaviors. If feed is not finished by end of day I will clean the platforms before dark. I've only had one daytime raid many years ago. If you have a hanging feeder I would bring it in at night. I've stopped feeding suet.


I also have a game camera up at all times, mostly to see if cats are stalking my station feeders, thats another topic for discussion..... Had only one bear pass thru this spring, so far. I also have electric fence around my chicken house. Some bears have a taste for chicken. In the past this too has been an attraction.




David Merker
Etna, New Hampshire
Cape May Raptor Banding Project Inc.
www.capemayraptors.org



From: Upper Valley Birders <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Connie Snyder <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 8:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [UVB] Bird feeders and bears
 
Ted Levin echoes our delight in watching gold, house and purple finches, rose-breasted grosbeaks, chipping sparrows, etc., bring their fledglings to the feeder plus I like to think we're helping the increasingly haggard-looking parents during that heavy feeding time.

Our solution is to hoist the cylindrical feeder on pulleys attached to the eave above an upstairs window and tie the cord securely to a cleat as far up overhead as we can reach after filling the feeder from the ground.  One could also add feed from the high window itself.  A couple of times over many years, we've found bear prints on the wall but they've been unsuccessful in loosening the carefully cleated cord.  

An aside: this early spring, a raccoon completely untied the wires to the crabapple tree suet feeder and took away the whole assembly - wire, hook, etc. which now lies somewhere in the woods, I guess. 

On 9 May 2017 at 07:15, Ted Levin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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