We had a bear visit last night. Rossy had walked over by himself earlier (in the dark) and said he heard a rattling of metal sound in the back yard (which was the bird feeder farther back in the yard we figured out later) but we didn't think anything of it at the time - then someone looked out the window and actually saw the bear pulling the other bird feeder down (the feeder that is only about 2 feet away from the window). I thought the bears were all hibernating by now but Dave says that as long as there is a good supply of food for them they won't hibernate. The field by the lake still has corn in it. We are going to have to start going out and supervising the boys going across the yard at night.