Bears go after it, too.
In our rural NH community, people are advised to bring in their bird feeders by the end of March, when the bears are waking up from hibernation and are hungry.
Bears do love bird feeders! We have friends/family who live in mountain ‘resort’ type areas & they are required to not have feeders out while the bears are out.
We get the very occasional bear through here - mostly young bears looking for their own territory. We think we caught sight of a small one on a game camera a couple of years ago, running by the garage. The bird feeder pole was bent over to the ground so I thought it was going to take something as large as a bear to do that. Evidently, a very fat old raccoon on the top of one of those poles can “ride” it to the ground! We do have the occasional bobcat on trail cam, but they don’t bother the bird feeders :-)
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I mostly look at the pictures