Bear in the Neighborhood

One of our residents saw a young bear in her backyard that had torn down her bird feeders.  She contacted Henderson County Animal Control and was advised that the bear would leave if there was no food left out.  Her contact at Henderson County Animal Control said that folks should be careful about leaving trash and bird feeders out.

Another said their garbage can was down and bag of garbage dragged to the side of shed and their standing bird feeder was bent over and when they pulled it out of the ground the stake in the ground was bent.

I went on a walk and found some bear scat. He/she has been eating a lot of bird seed.