This incident was a mamma and 2 cubs. We usually have 4 or 5 different bears every spring-fall roaming our property but have rare interactions (1-2/yr). We chose to live here and see the bears as a cool addition to our land that is to be respected but not feared.
We take precautions to...
At about 10pm this evening a large black bear (350lbs +) attemped to break in to my chicken coop. It managed to rip open a nesting box door and remove the interior feeder before moving onto our "bear box" (trash bin) and our house trash can on the deck.
Thankfully, none of our birds were...