Monday, April 13, 2009

Clean-up crew

Here's another good reason to keep the area under your feeders clean. Not only will it prevent bird diseases, rodent infestation, raccoon and opossum visitations, but it might discourage the ultimate clean-up crew from making your place a nightly visit.



This fella showed up at 8:45 PM and stayed around for three hours. The flash going off and my pointing a million candle power flashlight at him made him a tad spooky but after retreating to the hillside for a few minutes to assess the situation, he would come back down and start licking up the seed hulls and whatever else he could find.

2 comments:

Rev. Paul said...

That's one more thing you have in common with us Alaskans: blackies that have lost their fear of humans.

Be careful, my friend.

Cassie said...

That is one large black bear. My mom (up in NE PA too) has lost several bird feeder by rambunctous black bears. I told her to stop putting the bird food & kitchen scraps (in a trough near her barn)out cuz it's just asking to for bears. She's so stubborn she refuses. Acts like it's some kind of battle: Rosie against the bears. I'm afraid some night she'll go out there in the dark,with her blindness, and one of her visitors will surprise her. Could be disastrous.