Sorry, I thought is was a different picture of a black bear. That picture of the polar bear was taken in Svalbard north of Norway from a ship. The bear and a couple of cubs came close to the ship which was stopped so I took a bunch of pictures. I would not mess with a polar bear as that mother weighted about 1200 pounds.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 11:43 amI took that in my back yard. The black bear had taken down the feeder and I happened to see him when I have my camera in hand. I went out on our patio and was about 30 feet from the bear when I took a bunch of pictures. Black bears are not inclined to attach but my wife came to the door and was freaking out. The bear just wanted me to go away so he could eat. Best guess was that the bear weighed about 300 pounds.Tom Shea wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 6:20 pmBob, I hope that's not a picture you took yourself. Those bears have big appetites.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:05 am
Hang in there. The more you learn, the better you get and the more fun these things are.
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Good thing you were on the ship. Seals and humans all look like tender meat to polar bears.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 11:44 amSorry, I thought is was a different picture of a black bear. That picture of the polar bear was taken in Svalbard north of Norway from a ship. The bear and a couple of cubs came close to the ship which was stopped so I took a bunch of pictures. I would not mess with a polar bear as that mother weighted about 1200 pounds.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 11:43 amI took that in my back yard. The black bear had taken down the feeder and I happened to see him when I have my camera in hand. I went out on our patio and was about 30 feet from the bear when I took a bunch of pictures. Black bears are not inclined to attach but my wife came to the door and was freaking out. The bear just wanted me to go away so he could eat. Best guess was that the bear weighed about 300 pounds.
This is one of mama and baby black bear at our back door, a week after mama took down our feeder in VT.
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After the second time a black bear took down our feeders, I strung a 400 lb test wire about 15 feet high between two trees about 30 feet apart. I have hung the feeders from the wire and no bear around here can get to them. I have a pulley system to lower the feeders to fill them. The squirrels however have learned to walk the wire to get to the feeders.
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