Len Gilday took this photo of a black bear when it came to visit his house below Valhalla ridge one morning at 7:30. He says the bear very calmly came out of the forest, ambled up the drive, investigated the small garbage can, saw it was empty, then wandered off towards Taylor Road.
Last year a bear raided his bird feeder several times, bending the pole to the ground. This year, he suspended the bird feeder from a wire 10 feet off the ground.
The Undercurrent noticed that there was a tag in the bear's left ear so it sent a copy of the photo to Simon Gravel, the conservation officer who removed a black bear from the island last year.
Gravel confirms that the bear has been tagged but says it's not the bear that was removed last year. That bear was tagged in the right ear.
Gravel reminds people not to have food sources, such as garbage and bird feed, available to bears.
