Last Tuesday night, our suet feeder disappeared. Gone completely, not just on the ground below or at a few yards distance. Gone. The feeder is positioned over a balcony that is 3 feet wide and the bottom of the feeder is about 7 1/2 feet above the balcony's floor. The hanger is another 8 inches above that. The squirrels can occasionally knock it down, but they cannot carry it away. And to knock it down takes a flying leap on their part, pointed in exactly the right direction to un-clip the chain from the big hook, and it isn't easy. The balcony connects to our entry courtyard deck.
I replaced it with a different suet feeder on Thursday. Thursday night, it disappeared, too.
Then, I came upon this clue, right on the entry courtyard deck, a few feet from the front door to my house:
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| Bear print is about 7 inches side-to-side and this was pretty fresh, not enlarged by melting snow. |
A bear! A BIG bear. Big enough that he could simply reach up and take down the suet feeder by unhooking a chain more than 8 feet in the air.
I haven't put up another suet feeder...
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