Bear sighting

Last night we had a black bear visitor up in the mountains. It was a male and weight appx. 600#s. Karen came in and woke me up excidtedly. The bear was eating the peanuts we left for the flying squirrels and blue-jays. He then goes over and sits on his but and snifs the suet we leave for the woodpeckers and procedes to pull on it until the quarter inch steel hook unbends and wanders off to chew that up. They bear was huge, I had thought a female 200#er or so was visiting once in a while. Our bear box/trash can holder was tipped over when we got here and normally we don't see anything when the truck is in the driveway. They must be getting hungry. This one had tags in both ears so it must have been moved at least once. The next morning Karen told me she checked again and saw the bear lounging out in front of the bird feeders with a peanut holder he bent up, chewing on peanuts and spittng the shells out. This happened to be the one weekend I didn't bring up my camera or camcorder. My wife's little point and shoot camera does not have a low enough ISO or quick enough lens to take night shots. None of them came out.