A Nocturnal Visitor

[patinagle16]

Night before last, we heard a loud thump in the middle of the night.  We got up to investigate, thinking something in the house somewhere had fallen down.  As we were in the north hallway, we heard another thump.  Turned on the back porch light and discovered the grill on its side and the tray bird feeder like this. 

We concluded we'd been visited by a bear.  My spouse uprighted the grill before I could take its picture the next morning, but there was plenty of other wreckage.  Our ursine friend destroyed two bird feeders and bent the pole on a third (ironically, the same pole was bent by a bear a few years ago). 

Ah, the joys of rural living!



























This was the only feeder that had food in it - thistle seed.  Probably not fun for a bear.