We lived here (very rural) Virginia for over 20 years before a bear showed up several years ago. He hung around everyone's yards, tearing birdfeeders and trashcans, until a neighbor got a bear dog to chase him away. We've had one a couple of times since, including this year. Try to make sure neither you nor neighbors have anything to draw them, including hummingbird or regular feeders and trash. They will rip open, drag off sealed trashcans or containers. This year the bear got into the bee houses. We see turkeys fairly often and one year had a pheasant hang around all summer. There are fewer birds because we took down all the feeders. The crows like to peck in the cut fields where neighbors are making hay and haven't rolled it yet. I think they're just easier to see right now.

We lived here (very rural) Virginia for over 20 years before a bear showed up. He hung around everyone's yards, tearing birdfeeders and trashcans, until a neighbor got a bear dog to chase him away. We've had one a couple of times since, including this year. Try to make sure neither you nor neighbors have anything to draw them, including hummingbird or regular feeders and trash. They will rip open, drag off sealed trashcans or containers. This year the bear got into the bee houses. We see turkeys fairly often and one year had a pheasant hang around all summer. There are fewer birds because we took down all the feeders. The crows like to peck in the cut fields where neighbors are making hay and haven't rolled it yet. I think they're just easier to see right now.

We lived here (very rural) for over 20 years before a bear showed up. He hung around everyone's yards, tearing birdfeeders and trashcans, until a neighbor got a bear dog to chase him away. We've had one a couple of times since, including this year. Try to make sure neither you nor neighbors have anything to draw them, including hummingbird or regular feeders and trash. They will rip open, drag off sealed trashcans or containers. This year the bear got into the bee houses. We see turkeys fairly often and one year had a pheasant hang around all summer. There are fewer birds because we took down all the feeders. The crows like to peck in the cut fields where neighbors are making hay and haven't rolled it yet. I think they're just easier to see right now.