Bear visits early Nov. 2016

Ok, I've had enough of this!

Last week, a bear broke into my shed where I had some honey frames waiting to go to the dump.  My shed door has one of those 1/2" steel pins that goes into the floor to keep the door in place.  The bear bent it sideways and got in.  He scattered all the frames over my vegetable garden until he was done, knocking over anything in his way.  The garden fence was flattened as he made what looks to be his exit.

He also got into my compost bin on the other side of the yard.  He had to dig deep to find the household compost stuff...I had it all covered with  mowed leaves.

He came back at some point and went through the garden looking for frames he left behind but we had since taken them to the dump. He lifted a fake rock that goes over my propane tank cover, tossed it aside, looking for goodies under there.

Then yesterday at about 5PM, he sauntered into  my yard, rested on my front lawn and generally acted like he'd been here before.  In fact, he acted like he owned the place.

I took these shots and a video.

Here he was about 20 feet from the front porch. Then he came to the tree and lied down for a bit.  That's when I shut the door loudly so he'd take off.

This morning, I see he's been back and has broken into the greenhouse.  He broke into it last year around this time as well, but I have nothing stored in there anymore, other than empty flower pots.  Looks like he never made it inside but he tore off one of the panels to get in ...a potting bench that runs the length of the greenhouse was in his way however.

Then I happened to look outside at my pond.  It's practically empty!  And I see Butterfly bushes growing beside it flattened.  I need to go see if he ate the water lilies too! (he didn't.) I'm assuming his claws have punctured a hole into the lining.  Yet another fix-it job perhaps I also wonder if he didn't jump and splash around to cause the water to spill out..  I'll fill  it and then see what happens. I had just removed the pump and hose that goes to little waterfall a few weeks ago.  Otherwise, he'd have probably ruined at least the hose.

One last point.  He didn't go anywhere near the electric fence around the beehives. I won't remove that until I'm sure he's gone into hibernation.