Originally Posted by marciayudkin

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! And thanks for fixing the link, Andy.

Anita, my favorite birds are the great blue herons, which have a wing span of about six feet. I'll also be watching for bats, as I heard many of them have been sickened and died from some kind of disease. Watching them come out at dusk, I understand the saying "like a bat out of hell."

We don't put out bird feeders, but most of my friends do and this is the time of year that they have to take them indoors because the bears start wandering around looking for food.

To someone who lives in the city, my bear stories sound unbelievable, but I really have had a yearling bear show up at my open office door and we were separated only by a screen. Another time I came back from running and heard, then saw a bear just 20 feet away from me in the yard.

Marcia Yudkin