Subject: [Tweeters] Unexpected visitors at the bird feeder
Date: Dec 26 08:38:51 2007
From: Jamie Samans - jsamans at gmail.com


Raccons?!?!

We had a very unexpected guest at our feeders last summer -- a black bear!
He/she would come up on our deck, pull the bottom off the sunflower seed
feeder, and lap up all the seeds. It would also steal all of the suet we
put out for the woodpeckers. We started bringing everything in but he/she
still came about twice a week (the dogs always let us know when it was even
thinking about making an appearance), poking around and gorging on the apple
and pear trees in our front yard. Once the fruit was done for the year, the
bear moved on (or hibernated).

We got very few good pictures, since he usually came well after dark and
flash pictures through glass always turn out terrible -- here he is with his
feeder, this was taken on one of those early July nights when it is still
fairly light at around 9:30 pm:

http://donereachwest.com/images/2007/bear1.jpg

I never cleaned the paw prints off that window -- great conversation piece,
hehe.

-Jamie Samans
Fall City

-----Original Message-----
From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Chuck
Reinsch
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:23 AM
To: tweeters; Darlene Sybert
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Unexpected visitors at the bird feeder

Raccoons! For the last 3 months, we have been retrieving our hummingbird
feeders after sunset, and putting them back up a sunrise, because the
raccoons developed a liking for the sugar water and would suck them dry
every night.

chuck reinsch, magnolia, seattle, washington, creinsch at humbirds.org


----- Original Message -----
From: "Darlene Sybert" <drsybert at northtown.org>
To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 10:18 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Unexpected visitors at the bird feeder


I was up before the sun this morning and enjoyed my coffee in front of my
bay window while I watched the Stellar Jays, Spotted Towhee, Oregon
Junco, flocks of chickadees, and one song sparrow that habitually visit
my feeder.

But about 3 pm, the snow began (and continues even now), and a little
after seven, my power went off. Sitting in the dark a few minutes
later, I heard noises around the feeder (which is an old, heavy
birdbath) and went to the window to discover that three large raccoons
had tipped it over and were finishing up the birdseed!

Darlene Sybert
Cinebar WA
drsybert at northtown.org
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