Bird Suet Thief!!!!!

[WCTaxidermy]

I built a real nice bird feeder that I put up just off our deck so we can enjoy all the different species of birds from our living room window last year.  My wife has hung 3 different suit cages off the bottom of the bird feeder with small chains.  Every time she puts a berry mix or peanut butter mix suet up, guess what, it's gone by morning, SUET CAGE AND ALL!!!   The broken chain that held the cage up is on the ground.  3 times the cage was no where to be found.  The last two times, 2 days ago and last night, the cages was found about 20 feet from the feeder with the cage door open and the suet gone.

I'm guessing bear because the the suet is about 6 feet off the ground.  I went to Cabela's yesterday and bought the Moultrie 5.0 IR and am going to set it up tonight.  Hopefully we will know who/what the culprit is.  Any ideas?   Talk with you soon.  John

[BLKBEARKLR]

John

Good luck in finding the culprit, more than likely bear but could be one them there raccoons also I have seen them get in a lot of mischief.

Joe

[boneaddict]

Those are probably your top two contenders.

[Michelle_Nelson]

my vot is for coon.

[boneaddict]

check out this website or this product.  It supposedly protects things at night from coons, etc.  Its 29.95 and looks similiar to a trail camera.  I'm not promoting the object, just found it while reading one of my pheasant magazines. 
www.niteguard.com

[bowhunterforever]

Good luck getting pics of the bird suet thief.

[WCTaxidermy]

I first thought that it was a Racoon, but I have never seen one up here before. I just got back in from setting the camera up, so hopefully the "suspect"  will come in tonight and I will post pic's tomorrow.  John

[BLKBEARKLR]

well did you get em?

[WCTaxidermy]

The Suet has not been touched since I put the camera up.  Here are a couple of pic's from the new camera.  So far pretty happy with it.  Maybe tonight the Suet Thief will show up.   John

[heavy hauler]

cool, i bet there will be more soon

[Slider]

If it is a Bear he will probably take your CAMERA!!!......................

[WCTaxidermy]

If he does, then the big gun's are coming out.    I just bought that camera and so far love it.  I sure wish I would have got one years ago.  They are fun, and believe it or not, "there like a box of chocolate, you never know what your going to get" when you walk up to them to see how many pictures were taken and what's on them.   Take care everyone and talk with you soon.  John

[BLKBEARKLR]

John, any luck catching the culprit yet??

Joe

[jackelope]

back in NY we had a clothesline off of our patio and across the yard to a tree. we hung suet on it for the birds. one night we heard some crashing, so i got up and ran out to see a bear on my deck had ripped the clothesline off of the deck. he was headed down to get the suet. he had worked on that thing pretty hard, there was a bunch of dirt/clay ground into the wood on the deck railing where he had been leaning over it.
interesting thing to me was he climbed over the railing to get to a tree that was a couple feet away from the deck to climb down rather than climb down the stairs that was right next to that tree.

[WCTaxidermy]

Jackelope, now that is funny.  They sure are a strange creature.  Nothing yet Joe.  At 4:10 this morning I heard a bang on my deck and thought it was him, but when I got up and peeked out the window there was nothing there.  Nothing came in last night at all, not even a deer.  I'm wondering if it smells the camera or something.  John