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mg to the Virgkiia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. It's vital to keep bird feeders away from a bear’s grasp, fer the sake of the bear and the homeowner. This is especially important in Virginia, since hungry hears often emerge from their dens to forage during winter warm spells.
Bruce Jones has a specially constructed platform feeder welded to bn iron pole, high enough off the ground to keep out both bears and raccoon% as well as to make it visible from his window. Judging by the activity we saw during our visit, it’s hugely popular with the hods.
Ron Makela, a birder who runs the “Yellow Brick Road” home maintenance and repair business, has developed his own ingenious design fer bear-proofing his feeders. They’re hung at the end of hatfmch plumber's copper pipe, run through holes in the outermost beam of his covered deck. H* tubing is pulled in for access to the feeders, and then pushed back out to put the feeders out of a bear’s grasp.
There’s no way for bears to get at them,” Rem told me “You can push them out beyond the drip edge.” Bears also can’t climb the posts supporting the secondstory deck, which have no bark, he explained.
At our home in Keyser Hollow, years ago bears demolished several feeders hung in a maple tree in front of my study window. My first solution was to raise the feeders higher in the tree, but refilling them also meant a hair-raising climb to the top of a tall step ladder,
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