More bears

[BigBill]

I have more Blackbears that I can count.

One sow with two of this springs cubs
One sow with a 1.5 yo cub.
One male three years old.
One male four years old.
One male estimated 500 lbs.

They go through my land into the bottlom land. There hitting my fruit trees already.

 

[billwill]

They must like your habitat and especially the cafeteria !

 

[Rich Richardson]

What part of the country are you in?

 

[Fishslayer]

Oh... THOSE kind of bears...

I have more Blackbears that I can count.

One sow with two of this springs cubs
One sow with a 1.5 yo cub.
One male three years old.
One male four years old.
One male estimated 500 lbs.

They go through my land into the bottlom land. There hitting my fruit trees already.

 

[Drm50]

We were having a lot of bear sightings in SE Ohio. When the fracking got into full swing the bear sightings tapered off. Now cranking back up again. Here is bear swimming Ohio River from WVa to Ohio. Up near WVA-Pa-Ohio border. He will land in old Rust Belt area. Same area where Pretty Boy Floyd got scuffed. If he doesn't get run over or ate by laid off worker he will end up down this way in a couple of weeks. Maybe live happily ever after in Wayne Nation Forrest.

 

[6518John]

What part of the country are you in?

Bill has posted before he is in the Northeast, Vermont I believe. Maybe Maine.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Is it ok to ask: What caliber for bear???

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[ladder13]

Pretty sure he's in the once Constitution State.

 

[Telecaster]

Bear attack in Tennessee yesterday.

Bear attacks sleeping teen at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

 

[Babysitr]

Bears showing up in So. Illinois.....maybe just passing thru, maybe from Mo. releases, not sure

 

[Jim R]

We had nine of them (black bears) last year that move into take care of the choke cherries, this year so far we have a young male and a big old boar. A new couple moved into a house about a 1/4 of a mile south of us. They saw a bear cross the back of their property so they called the game department. The warden came out and explained to them that this was a very high bear area. The new neighbor asked the warden if there really was that many bears here. The warden told him to pick up the rock over there and throw it into the woods, you might hit one.
These pictures are a couple days old. The young one is just starting to get all his hair back from shedding his winter coat, the old guy is looking good already.

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[6518John]

Pretty sure he's in the once Constitution State.

They got bear running wild in Connecticut?! I though the whole state was basically a suburb of NYC!!??

 

[woodsltc]

Bear attack in Tennessee yesterday.

Bear attacks sleeping teen at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

This happened not far from me......and close to an area that borders GSNP that I've hunted frequently. Here's a link to another account that gives more details. Don

Teen sleeping in hammock attacked by bear in Great Smoky Mountains National Park; bear shot, killed – KIRO 7 News Seattle

 

[billwill]

The teen wrapped up in the hammock was thinking sleep, bear was thinking Tacos.

Think of the number of times we all went camping as a kid and never gave a second thought to have a bear sniffing around you or in the ocean riding the waves not worried about a shark.

 

[Telecaster]

I didn't think about sharks till Jaws came out.

 

[ladder13]

They got bear running wild in Connecticut?! I though the whole state was basically a suburb of NYC!!??

No, that's Florida.

 

[6518John]

No, that's Florida.

We now have the Funniest Post of 2021. We can close the competition.

 

[BigBill]

Bill has posted before he is in the Northeast, Vermont I believe. Maybe Maine.

In ct land of the bears, here's winsted,ct

Mama bear's struggle with cubs looks hilariously familiar - CNN Video

 

[sureshotbob]

Bill I think one of your bears was at my house today I.
I looked at the trash and said only one bag I'll wait till Monday morning to bring it to the transfer station.
This year. I've only seen one at my trash so far .
But as I was mowing the grass behind my garage I saw something moving in the woods it was a bear about 35 yards from me. I live a half mile from the fairgrounds.
I was talking to the lady next door after I saw the bear and she told me her dog chased a cub up a tree so mama must of been close by.
Last Sunday morning a large bear was seen downtown at Baldwin park.

 

[Fishinfool]

They got bear running wild in Connecticut?! I though the whole state was basically a suburb of NYC!!??

CT has become a "wild kingdom" of sorts. When I was growing up there in the late 60's - early 1970's, didn't see many deer, now it's over run with them. Black bears were unheard off back then, but not now. Just last week, a buddy of mine who lives in Terryville CT called me, and told me he was sitting at an intersection down town, waiting for the light to change, when a big black bear came walking down the sidewalk, then crossed the road at the intersections cross walk, disappearing behind some buildings. Big resident population now.

Moose to, believe it or not. A CT resident may remember back in the early 1980's, there was a bull moose shot in a corn field in Southbury by police after it "charged" them. I was a state cop at the time, and was there for that fiasco, but didn't take part in that "assassination". Lots of public outcry about it, then not long afterwords, another moose found in neighboring Newtown. DEP decided to tranquilize it, as it represented a danger to traffic on nearby Interstate 84. They managed to kill it with an overdose.

Larry

 

[sureshotbob]

Larry that had to be the one in Baldwin park last Sunday morning .It crossed the park and went up by the old high school..

 

[Squarebutt]

We're about 15 miles north of the CT line in western MA and in the last two weeks a big sow strolled through our yard, circling about 10' from the kitchen window around the house and back toward where she came from. This was around 3 p.m. A few days later a yearling came through the yard at noon on one of those 90 degree days. The district wildlife manager says he's swamped with bear calls. We have moose, too. Never saw or heard of either critter when I was a kid

 

[mike4sigs]

Is it ok to ask: What caliber for bear???

Have a blessed day,

Leon

My dad killed his one black bear that he Harvested in Ontario with A 7MM . He said it dropped immediately.

 

[6518John]

CT has become a "wild kingdom" of sorts. When I was growing up there in the late 60's - early 1970's, didn't see many deer, now it's over run with them. Black bears were unheard off back then, but not now. Just last week, a buddy of mine who lives in Terryville CT called me, and told me he was sitting at an intersection down town, waiting for the light to change, when a big black bear came walking down the sidewalk, then crossed the road at the intersections cross walk, disappearing behind some buildings. Big resident population now.

Moose to, believe it or not. . . .

Larry

I suspect I am like a lot of folks from rural areas of the country—i think of NE US and envision Boston, Philadelphia, and NYC. Then the rest of the land up there is covered with parking lots and roads to connect the big cities.

Yet I have traveled extensively in the NE—upstate NY, Western Pennsylvania, Maine, Vermont, etc. and I have seen some of the wildest, most beautiful ground of anyplace I have ever been.

I bet you have a lot of urban folks getting out of the cites too and moving closer to the wild places and feeding the wildlife leading to bigger populations and more human interaction. (Heck, I am not ashamed to admit I wouldn't mind seeing a moose occasionally)!

 

[Fishinfool]

sureshotbob - I just googled the park. Yep, its right near my buddies house. It's a pretty built up area, and certainly not bear habitat.

6518John - Speaking for CT, anyway, you are right. That state has grown tremendously in population and urban sprawl since I grew up there as a kid. I really don't like going back to visit friends because of the traffic and over crowding. Yet, there is more, and more varied types of wildlife there than when I was a kid, and I spent a lot of times in the woods back then. Coyotes are another species that never seemed to be around in the old days, but now they are everywhere. Spent a lot of time in the woods of western CT as a kid, and small game was plentiful, as were waterfowl around water, and that was about it.

Larry

 

[ladder13]

Bear have been seen as far south as White Plains NY, some 10 miles from the NYC line.

When I lived in Putnam County NY, a stones throw from I84, a moose was running down the Taconic Parkway, probably came down from MA. It apparently made it to cover as no one hit it.

About 15 years ago a moose got splattered all over I684 in Westchester County NY in Bedford trying to cross a three lane racetrack.

You may not see them but they're out there.

 

[glenwolde]

I'm not a biologist but I figure after being pushed out by development it got to the point where the wildlife kind of had to become used to it and adapt to living in areas with humans as they had no other choice.

Some no doubt got "geographically" stranded. They got pushed back until they ran into development in the other direction. Now they're surrounded.

I've read some states around the country are trying to develop trails for wildlife so they can escape development-locked areas.

 

[jaguargolf]

I'm just south of the Catskills. I keep bear spray on my riding mower and in the shed. We have a big male come through every year or so. An enormous black bear walked right down the middle of the street one morning. Not one dog barked. Had an old boar kill one of my neighbors goats many years ago. Local and State Police, and Sheriffs from 3 counties shot it over an 8 hour time frame. It kept hiding under my neighbor's trampoline. I had my young children sleep in the cast iron bathtub. Six guys had a hard time lifting the dead bear into the back of a pickup truck.

 

[Golddollar]

I'm not a biologist but I figure after being pushed out by development it got to the point where the wildlife kind of had to become used to it and adapt to living in areas with humans as they had no other choice.

Your theory has merit. Whitetailed deer have moved right in with people where deer can't be hunted and there are food sources available. I live in town and I routinely see deer, sometimes in considerable numbers.

 

[Robspeire]

BEAR ALERT! Critter seen crossing 11W into downtown Rogersville | Rogersville | therogersvillereview.com
I'm 7 miles from town & have pics of bears on 2 trail cams .
Sam my dog (Boxer & German shepherd mix), was barking about 100 yards from cabin by the pond & it turned to yelping one nite. He came back to cabin whining to come back in & peed all over front porch. When I let him in he hid under the bed.
Next morning sure enuff there were bear tracks in mud by pond.
However he has run off all the coyotes
I keep a 1187 shotgun loaded with slugs & 00buck in corner.