A cool video has emerged of a big black bear shaking a bird feeder to eat seeds from it.

The footage, shot in a garden in Maine, USA this summer, shows the bear trying to reach the seed containers with his paws.

"After our first bear knocked [the feeder] down twice, I put this 1.5 inch iron pipe in concrete," the filmer wrote online.

"They shake some seed out, but this is the first time a bear has reached the feeders."

We live in Canton, Connecticut.
This is the largest bear we have seen. Until now, none has been able to reach the feeders, The ringing is a Maine bell. It alerts us when a bear is around.
After this bear damaged one of the Aspects feeders, I extended the pipe another foot.
The Nest Cameras have recorded two young bears playing, an apparent bear date, a mother and cub, and numerous bears with a variety of identification tags.
We have also recorded opossum, raccoon, skunk, deer, fox, bobcat, and turkeys.
We have even recorded a meteor fireball.
This feeder arrangement was a replacement for the standard tin pole. After our first bear knocked it down twice, I put this 1.5 inch iron pipe in concrete. They shake some seed out, but this is the first time a bear has reached the feeders.