True!
I cringe when I see these videos on YouTube about bears in people’s back yards or even patios and porches. They always fawn over them, especially if there are cubs.
A mother bear who brings her cubs into your backyard while you are around is teaching them they have nothing to fear from humans, and that the place is a food source. Many people think there is nothing scarier than a mother bear around her cubs, so will just watch them without doing anything. This needs to be highly discouraged!
Mama needs to know, and through her cubs, too, that you are to be feared. Scream, yell, bang on pots, blow a canned fog horn, shoot firearms—do what you can to chase her and her cubs out (just be careful for yourself).
Yes, but my wife loves to see the Blue birds come to the feeder at the window.
It is a battle every April 1st when I tell her it is time to take down the bird feeders.
Yes, we have had black bears come to the back of the house and destroy a bird feeder and a SUET feeder.