Interesting Rick as yesterday morning, 7:15am, I was on my deck (abuts the north end of the Wilton Town Forest) and below me 30' away was a very large black bear. It came right in front of our kitchen window and walked up the driveway (perhaps to your house which is only 4miles away!). Joe Bear Wilton Go GATORS! *"**When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world**."* *-John Muir* > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 19:22:11 -0400 > From: Rick Kenneally <rick.kenneally@gmail.com> > Subject: [CT Birds] Bad evening in Wilton > To: ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org > Message-ID: <6531C6D5-FC16-40A9-9158-2F1051EA045D@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > A very large black bear just tore down all our feeders and is methodically > cracking them open to empty them. It is very unimpressed by my marine air > horn. > > This is our third bear incursion on the feeders over the past couple > years. I think our bird feeding days may be over. > > Rick > Wilton > * >