Hawk-eye Yells “Bear In The Backyard”

In recent weeks we have had 2 different bears in the backyard. The first about 2 weeks ago was Jello Butt. It was a huge bear who lumbered through the back yard with its Butt wobbling like it was filled with Jello. He disappeared into the woods like Shoeless Joe Jackson into the corn field in “Field of Dreams”.

The most recent was Dumbo. It had been tagged with huge white tags in each ear that made it look like it had Dumbo the elephant ears. Kind of. It appeared to be a smaller cautious bear that would run if it heard BOO. You will see in the video, as it came close to the bird feeder we both gave it a scolding like a parent would give a little child who was about to get into trouble.

What you won't see because the battery to the video camera died, is that the bear was cautious just not cautious of us. Hawk-eye started banging 2 pots with the sliding glass door open and nothing. It took two steps, turned and looked at us like we were 2 chubby turkey legs. I took the pots and started bang bang banging as we yelled and it took 10 steps and turned around and said what the hell. I said to Hawk-eye go get the bird feeder cause I sure would hate to lose a good bird feeder. She stepped onto the deck yelling at me, “bang the pots, bang the pots” and the bear ran off into the woods learning a valuable lesson. Don't mess with Hawk-eye and the Chubby Guy.

I have read that if you are walking in the woods and you meet a bear you should lay down and play dead. I think a bear started that rumor.