Video of baby bears ransacking a Colorado Springs family’s bird feeder and rummaging around their deck and backyard. According to the family, the three have visited the house about three times since the spring. This video was taken last week, and lasted about an hour. The bear cubs brought their mother during this last trip. In their search for food, the bears have also toppled and broken several of the family’s decorative planters. The homeowners are reluctant to call the division of wildlife because they don’t want the cubs separated from their mother.
If you think you may have bears in your area, here are few tips to help keep them out of your backyard.
Never intentionally feed bears to attract them to your yard for viewing.
If bears are in your area, take down, clean and put away bird feeders at the beginning of the spring. Store the bird feeder until late fall. Otherwise, just put out enough feed for the day and take bird feeders inside overnight.
Clean up spilled seed below feeder stations.
Garbage for pickup should be put outside the morning of collection and not the night before.
Use a bear-proof dumpster.
Keep garbage and odor at a minimum by removing trash often and cleaning container with amonia.
Do not place meat or sweet food scraps in your compost pile.
Do not leave pet food or dishes outdoors at night.
An all points bulletin was issued Wednesday for an escapee fitting the description of having a bright yellow head, emerald-green rear, orange circles around its’ eyes, and a band on one leg.
The suspect is a zoo parrot called a sun conure, who “flew the coop” during a free-flight performance at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday. It was one of 14 birds in the afternoon show, during which they soar across the stage and land on perches. At the end of the show, a “beak count” revealed only 13 birds had returned.
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