Yogi Bear used to brag to his friend Boo-Boo that he was "smarter than the average bear." I hope I can say the same. My poor birds have been hungry, and I have no patience with a destructive bear coming into my yard and even up onto my porch to eat all their food and destroy the feeders. So I applied the backpacking principle of the "bear bag" to my birdfeeders. It's kind of hard to see in these photos, but the birdfeeders are suspended by a cord at least 10 feet off the ground and 5 feet from the trunk of the tree. This is how you hang your food bag when you're backpacking in bear country. I can lower them for refills.
I rehung the birdhouse that that execrable bear keeps pulling down in search of eggs, too. And I saw the sweet little bird who lives there just a while later. She's a red-eyed vireo who was taking a big leaf inside the birdhouse to pad her nest. Such a delicate, tiny thing. I'm definitely on her side against this bully bear. I fear that I can't move the birdhouse to a safer, higher location. Now...if something pulls the birdfeeders down after I've hung them 10 feet off the ground...I might get a little spooked.
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