Posted on 08/16/2022 8:34:51 AM PDT by SJackson
Video shows a bear taking on an Alabama bird feeder — and people can’t get enough of the wild match up. The curious bear was spotted on its hind legs, not quite able to reach the feeding containers that dangled from the top of a pole on Thursday, Aug. 11, according to a social media post. “My neighbor built a new birdfeeder that is a lot higher than the last one,” Facebook user Heather Fath Messick wrote. “The bear is trying to bring it down.”
The footage she shared online shows the bear grabbing and shaking the bird feeder’s tall pole before turning its face toward the person behind the camera. Despite the bear’s best efforts, the feeder remained standing at the end of the 25-second video clip, which ended with the animal sitting on the lawn in defeat.
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Again, if you don’t approve, don’t do it and don’t be a Karen and tell other people what not to in their own yards. How hard is that?
You said, “Right now I am sitting at my kitchen window with a cup of coffee watching a beautiful hummingbird at the feeder outside the window”
Hummingbirds! What started out this year was a fun thing like every year with the sugar water drinkers. After a few weeks their babies came to mom and pop’s sugar water bar.
Two feeders progressed to four. Then I added a very large feeder.
For the past few weeks, those rascals have been drinking about 150 ounces of sugar water a day.
Keeps me busy feeding those critters.
Only saw two boys this morning. Think some of them is tanking up energy to head south.
The only thing more delightful than a hummingbird is a whole family of hummingbirds. You’re blessed to have them (though I hope you can get a good deal on sugar somewhere!)
I’m in NO hurry to see black bears show up in the River Region.
There was one male who wandered down here to Wetumpka/Millbrook/Pratville and all the way to Auburn a few years ago. Man, they can wander far! Probably looking for a mate. Didn’t find her, so went back up to the Northeast.
I used to have some DNR computer people in my classes. They told me the biologists told them by 2025 we’ll have bears in Central Alabama.
A few years back someone hit one with a car near Shorter. Many years ago a female with cubs was seen in Red Hill. As you and I know that’s pretty much our neck of the woods. I’m more worried about the snake living in my shed as I don’t know what kind it is...lol Waiting til winter to investigate...
—”Raccoons also hang around bird feeders and they aren’t so adorable, either.”
And the wild and crazy squirrels!
Our neighbor has a bird feeder with every squirrel-stopping device existent. That held them off for a year or two.
Then they returned to his feeder.
One day I saw it happen! The squirrel would run out an adjacent power line and attempt about a four-foot horizontal and two-foot vertical leap. And sometimes successfully landing on the feeder!
Smart little critters.
WOW
Once or twice a yr, a squirrel will go up the telephone pole and get electrocuted. Power squad has to come out and turn power back on.
>>>For the past few weeks, those rascals have been drinking about 150 ounces of sugar water a day.<<<
WOW! Those are some thirsty birds!
Yep. Until the *bayah* go into hibernation.
DEP has no sympathy for you if you have a *bayah* problem.
Last month there was one on a feeder (can’t remember if it was a bird or deer feeder?) in Northern Green County, about 4 miles from the Tuscaloosa County line. Also last month, there was a huge alligator in Lake Tuscaloosa, and, to top it all off, the authorities were warning against approaching the kangaroo who had escaped from a small local zoo.
The chipmunks, ground squirrels, and other types of squirrels are abundant here. Maybe the altitude is too high for rattlers, which is good, although I did describe that a bear was hanging around for a time - I didn’t see the bear but his tracks.
I think it’s better just to feed the wild critters at random times and places. I have a funny video from our security cam where we had put some alfalfa out for the animals during a pretty bad winter and there were about 20 deer on the front lawn. A dog started barking at them and they all took alarm and darted away - quite a sight! - but the senior male hung around and walked around on the porch where I had put some corn (it’s for the birds, but he couldn’t read the sign I guess).
There are some tooth marks on one of the hummingbird feeders where a squirrel tried to gnaw its way in.
There’s one fox squirrel here who is a cripple - you can see his foot was broken but he managed to survive by being a panhandler. I’ll say “Do tricks and I’ll give you a peanut!” and he sits up, capers around, sometimes jumps from one of the porch posts to another.
I saw a video of a raccoon getting into a bird feeder that was strung from a wire high off the ground. The feeder contained about 10 lbs of those little black sunflower seeds. The rcoon LEAPED about 6 feet to grab onto the feeder (the people filming it from inside the house were totally cracking up) and hung onto it as it dangled from a clothesline and then it untwisted the bottom part of the feeder with its hind feet, with the result being that 10 lbs of bird food showered down onto the ground. The rcoon dropped neatly onto the lawn on all 4s and trotted away. (They always do that once they accomplish the mission, to make sure the coast is clear before they come back to pick up the loot.)
I also have some security cam footage of a raccoon picking up bits of cat food I left out on the porch - Mr Cat doesn’t always eat all his dinner and I don’t like for it to go to waste. Raccoons are funny to watch and yet frightening. People don’t realize how big they can get sometimes - the biggest rcoon I ever saw was in Denver right by Sloans Lake, pretty much in the middle of the West Side. This animal was about the size of a bull mastiff.
A raccoon?
Ya got me
That’s big
—” Raccoons are funny to watch and yet frightening.”
Be very careful around raccoons.
A guy I worked for called in sick, the next day his wife called in to say he was in the hospital.
A day or two and he died!
It took a while for the doctors to figure it out.
He had cut his hand while changing a tire...next day was moving his wood pile.
They believe the open wound on his hand came in contact with racoon scat that often carries some(?) infection.
Haha, yeah right? Whenever I find anything that looks like raccoon or fox droppings, it’s time to get the rubber gloves on.
So stop being a Karen yourself and telling me what my opinion should be, How about that .
The correct coservative / conservationist opinion is: do not feed wild animals.
Leptospirosis?
—Leptospirosis?
This happened long ago, the late 1970s, I have to recall the car I was driving at that time to date it.
I do recall that it was specific to raccoons and it was something uncommon. It was sometime later they determined the cause.
A search of “raccoon scat dangerous” brings up this:
Baylisascaris procyonis, predominantly found in raccoons, is a ubiquitous roundworm found throughout North America. Infection can result in fatal human disease or severe neurologic outcomes if it is not treated rapidly. Only 22 documented cases were reported in the United States during 1973–2010; little is known about its actual prevalence or varied clinical presentation.
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