Good evening
This morning while drinking my coffee on my front porch, I spotted a black bear across the street trying to sneak into the neighbor's cattle barbed wire fence but couldn't. This is the first time I see a bear and it looks like a juvenile or a young beer. I yelled at it and made loud noise and he took off running up the street hiding in the foliage until he ran up the hill! I have three hives that are strapped after the encountere to individual wood pallets that serves as makeshift stands in the backyard. Shooting it is out of the question, I live in the north western part of rural New Jersey! My question is did he smell the hives while across the road? He was about 100 yard from the bees. If you look at the attached picture the bear was by the electric poll near the fence across the road.
Thank you for your feedback!
Rodni