Bear caught on video in Silver Spring yard stealing food from birds.

[elleng]

Carol Lessans looked out the window above her kitchen sink Tuesday morning and was stunned: As she watched, a black bear walked through her Silver Spring yard, lay down and ate seeds from her bird feeder.

Her home, along Cutstone Way, backs up to a heavily wooded area near Route 200, so she and her husband are used to seeing foxes and birds, including the occasional wild turkey. But after 33 years there, she said, it was the first time they’d encountered a black bear. . .

It is “unusual but not unheard of” to see a black bear in a D.C. suburb, said Brian Eyler, the game mammal section leader for the Maryland DNR, and this is the time of year when young male bears are venturing out and looking for their own territory. There were several reports of black bear sightings in the Silver Spring area in June 2016.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/24/black-bear-sighting-maryland-video/?

[Shermann]

1. Maybe she bought a "bear feeder" by mistake?

I wouldn't think those would be big sellers.