Hunting Washington Forum
Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: WCTaxidermy on May 24, 2009, 07:55:02 AM
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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!!! :bash: 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???? :dunno: Talk with you soon. John
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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
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Those are probably your top two contenders.
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my vot is for coon. :)
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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
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Good luck getting pics of the bird suet thief.
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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
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well did you get em?
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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
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cool, i bet there will be more soon
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If it is a Bear he will probably take your CAMERA!!!...................... :chuckle:
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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. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: Take care everyone and talk with you soon. John
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John, any luck catching the culprit yet??
Joe
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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.
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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
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Well still nothing!!!! >:( I can't believe it. As soon as I put the cam out, nothing have touched the suet except the birds. I don't know what the problem is. The camera is semi hid on my deck, and the deck never really bothered it before, so I don't know what the problem is. I'm just going to leave it set up until what ever it is decides to come back.
John
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We've lost quite a few bird feeders to bears. We don't put them up any more. Sooner or later you'll catch the culprit!
