A bear took down my bird feeder hanger (that held 8 feeders). He actually broke it in half. I will put up another once the ground is unfrozen. I still feed birds, squirrels and chippies and have a birdbath that is heated. I buy a huge bag of peanuts and the squirrels and some birds love them
when we first moved , before I put up the fence, we had a bear come in and bend over my steel shepherd’s hook like it was a coat hanger. Couldn’t believe it. Like it was nothing.