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By Paul R. Farmer
Special to the Rappahannock News
We have bears. But then you probably do too if you live in Rappahannock County.
These are black bears of course, and right now they are hungry. This is not your garden-variety hunger; this is “111 eat the rail off your porch if you forget to leave the bird seed out,” hunger.
The bears are not starving, but they are lean from a long winter’s nap and from trying to nurse one, two, or in our case three baby bears, also known as cubs because they are so cute.
More than usual it seems, this spring Rappahannockers are reporting bears stealing bird seed off their back porches. Well, we don’t leave any bird seed out (in fact we don’t feed the birds except briefly in the most severe winter weath
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