Packed and ready to go...

Well its late and finally finished packing and making lists.. Having a little me time. Earlier today (1am) when the bear visited the feeder; I thought to myself that we haven't seen a bear..And behold I got up to check ouside and even before I turned the outside lights on; you could see him by the moonlight. He was lying down eating the big suet from the cage that he tore from the tree. He got up when we turned the lights on; and walked away but he came back to retrieve the suet cage. Then meandered towards the gas well road. I did find the suet cage; bend outward from where he stuck his snout in to get the suet. Sorry about the picture; I have to remember to keep the outside lights off when taking a pictures with the digital. He was a huge bear; looked in good health and might weight 450-500lbs. So now we only put feeders up in the daytime; and put some sunflowers out in the crook of the tree at night for the flying squirrels.(3 out there now) So now the list of critters that have visited our feeder:
Black Bear, raccoons, possum, skunk, large variety birds, gray and flying squirrels, female pheasant and the ever present deer. What else can there be? Got to go get some sleep for the trip to Oh Canada.
Good night all........