(KMOX) - KMOX and AccuWeather meteorologist Dean DeVore might be a bit more careful when he steps out the door to watch the morning sunrise next time. That's because there was a black bear just feet from his front door, drinking out of of a hummingbird feeder.
The whole scene was caputred on his Nest camera and he joined Amy Marxkors on KMOX to explain the video he shared.
"I'm happy to report the hummingbird feeder is fine and the birds are back at it," DeVore says. "We do know from Winnie the Pooh that bears like the sweet stuff ... you could tell it was smelling for it."
You won't believe it till you see it, but our meteorologist @DeanPSUpa captured some crazy video of a bear sneaking onto his front porch for a drink from his hummingbird feeder! Listen to him explain the story here on #KMOXRewind with @AmyMarxkors: https://t.co/ES7ApkOsWX pic.twitter.com/gXqIYRYZ5N
— KMOX St. Louis News (@kmoxnews)
September 1, 2020 Around 12:30 a.m. Sunday night the bear walked through some of his front yard plants, stepped onto the porch and began to pull the clear cylinder filled with sugary juice towards itself.
DeVore said the only reason he checked out video from Nest camera was because when he went outside to watch the sunrise as he normally does, he noticed the bird feeder wasn't there and first thought someone stole it. But the bear just knocked it down in the plants and walked away.
ICYMI....Close encounters of the #Bear kind at my house early this morning. Just after midnight, an attempted bruin burglary of my #Hummingbird feeder. Took down my finch and general feeders on the side too! Must have followed me home from #TheWoods this weekend. pic.twitter.com/7DtqGwZA0e
— Dean #DeVoreCast (@DeanPSUpa)
August 31, 2020 We asked DeVore, who lives in a Pennsylvania suburb, if he's going to be a little nervous about going outside in the early morning hours next time.
"Well, I'm getting a lot of replies from people and the city folks are like 'Oh my God, how can you live there!?!?' And the county folks are like, 'Oh yeah, happens to my bird feeders all the time,'" DeVore says. "The beauty of life in 2020 is that I can look on my Nest before looking out my door to make sure I'm going out there safely. But honestly, if I would have walked out on it, I think he or she would have been more me scared of me than me of it."
© 2020 KMOX (Entercom). All rights reserved
