FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] bear visits increasing daily in Bristol

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The neighborhood Black Bear visits continued through Wednesday in the 
Bellebrook Estates of south Bristol Tennessee.

Bunny Schoenhardt, who live on Cloudland Drive on the ridge just three doors up 
from my house, provided an update.  She was the lady who found her feeders 
destroyed early Monday.

About 5 p.m. Wednesday she telephoned to say the bear had been at the home of 
Boots Mays on Wonder Valley Rd. and had been coming about 2 p.m. for the past 
couple of day.  Meanwhile John Taft who lives maybe a 100 feet or so from the 
Schoenhardts reported he looked out his back window and saw the bear standing 
on his patio.

I saw neighbors gathered across the street about 5:30 p.m. and they reported 
the bear had just been seen at the end of Bellebrook Drive at the top of the 
hill.  Sheri Lanier and her husband Gene Lanier, introduced me to the St. John 
family.  Their teenage son had seen the bear near their home.  The father 
managed to see it cross a fence to the Cedar Valley Rd. side of the ridge.  He 
colleted black fur left behind on the fence.

At the Mays' resident, the bear knocked down a hummingbird feeder wile 
attempting to get food from it.  According to Bunny Schoenhardt,  the bear 
heard the Mays' dog inisde the house and the bear looked in one of the windows.

Police were here searching for the animal.  More telephone calls were placed to 
the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency but Bunny said neighbors do not expect 
a response from the agency. 

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, Tn