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Bear-resistant feeder

	Kaye Johnson lives at the edge of the Shenandoah National Forest in Virginia where she gets bears at her feeders regularly. Her husband designed these feeders in an attempt to feed birds rather than bears. Kaye fills the platform feeder (right) with a bucket on a pole. She also uses the pole to take down the tube feeders (left) to refill them. After a few months with the new feeders she wrote, "We were bothered this spring by a very big bear -- between 500 & 600 lbs. I didn't know black bears got that big! He got the hanging feeders, so we had to raise the pole a foot." Check out the mammal page to see one of Kaye's smaller bears.
Kaye sent the following instructions in with her photos: Dig a hole that's 2 ft. deep and 2 ft. in diameter. Reinforce the hole by driving pieces of T-bar into the sides. Then sink a 10 ft. fence post (the 2 1/2 in. corner post used for chain link fences) into the hole and fill with concrete. The T-bar prevents the bear from popping the concrete out of the hole when he pushes on the pole.

Homemade log feeder

Marjorie Beauchaine of Waylata, MN, sent us this photo of a Downy Woodpecker feeding at a homemade log feeder.