Who knew bears like lettuce?
A duplicate post from my Natural Gardening blog. Bears are part of our landscape here.
Who knew bears liked lettuce?
After dinner this evening, we suddenly saw the large grizzled
neighborhood bear, who has an urban bear collar, in the front of the
house through the glass storm door. The glare through the door didn't
make for a good photo, but....
He
was checking out the closest raised bed, and much to our surprise,
started eating a young butter crunch lettuce transplant, planted a week
or two. Hmm. He munched that one (it had been a LOT bigger) ignoring
the kale and chard nearby, then moved to another lettuce transplant in
an adjoining bed, munching it down, too.
Lisa, that is quite interesting and maybe seemingly comical. They have never bothered our raised beds. This behavior would have surprised me as well.
ReplyDeleteWe did see a coyote on our trail cam two nights ago.
It was quite surprising!
DeleteSurprising, indeed! How does Woody respond?
DeleteIf Woody sees one of the bears, he'll bark, usually if they're in the back and we're on the porch, but he didn't notice this fellow, as he probably was snoozing!
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