I get this funny feeling, that this is like getting pigs to sing.


Jane Stewart
Research Center
Foster Pepper & Shefelman PLLC
206.447.2811 t
206.447 9700 f
stewj at foster.com

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>From: ravenn at premier1.net[SMTP:ravenn at premier1.net]
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 1997 1:42AM
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Bears and Feeders
>
>Concerning Bears and Feeders, about 4 or 5 years ago I found my feeders
>on the ground. I thought raccoons had knocked them down until a week
>later when I was looking out my window one morning in August. Sitting
>in my garden was a very plump looking Black Bear. I live in the
>Mukilteo area and so bears were not a common sight. This one was having
>a terrific time pulling my tomatoes off the vines and eating them. This
>bear was one of possibly two or three which had made the news in
>Everett. It was eventually trapped and relocated. Since I work for
>Wild Birds Unlimited I'll ask them how one would go about bear proofing
>bird feeders.
>
>Yvonne Bombardier
>Everett, Wa
>ravenn at premier1.net
>
>
>> >From: Mary <mjeffers at ptialaska.net>
>>
>> >I need bear proof bird feeders.......Last October I was working away on
>> >the computer and I heard thuds on the deck and the cats were really
>> >acting strange. I finally turned on the outside lights. Staring me in
>> >the face is a black bear. She knocked down all my bird feeders. She
>> >munched all the ones with sunflower seeds in them. She ignored the suet.
>> >She returned several times with her twin cubs. Now does anyone know
>> >where I get bear proof feeders?
>