23 June 2024

We were away from Hilton Pond Center when we got an alert one of our motion-detecting security cameras had picked up activity in the garden area where our bird feeders and traps are deployed. What a startlement when the video revealed a young American Black Bear, Ursus americanus, was raiding our feeders! We're grateful the intruder bent one feeder pole (above) and smashed a suet feeder but did no other damage. Although we've seen bear scat along our trails several times, we've never observed a bear directly nor recorded another visit with our trail or security cams.