Yogi stopped by for a couple of apples & wanted a picnic basket

[M-technik-3]

Was having a cup of coffee and reading the paper. He just strolled through the yard.

[6A LDY]

I'll tell you what, there's some morbidly obese bears roaming west of 495 these days, I saw one in Fitchburg not too long ago

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Yogi stopped by for a couple of apples & wanted a picnic basket

Where's boo boo?

[M-technik-3]

Hopefully not nearby and it's not a mama bear. It just strolled by and I left it alone.

[ScHpAnKy]

can totally imagine beers and wrenching when suddenly... a great, big, brown bear!

[LateFan]

I had no idea they existed in MA! Dumb Westerner me thinking we had all the bears.

[mrmckie]

there seems to be alot more out this summer. My Aunt had one on her back porch not even 5 mins after the just walked into the house. she goes to close the door and there it was chilling on her back porch...One was at the end of my street on 4th of July strolling around in my friends front yard. The crazy thing is there was a bunch of people out front across the street having a cookout and the bear was still just strolling...eventually he ran off back into the woods. Animal control caught it and relocated it the next day...way too close for comfort for me.

[M-technik-3]

He's tagged so he is a known suspect in our area. DCR most likely relocated him to the Granville State Park. I have not seen a fisher cat here though yet.

[squidrope]

I live in a fairly populated area (1/2-1ish acre house lots) about a half mile from the nh seacoast. It's amazing how close some of these critters are. I see wild turkeys at least once a week. Deer once a month. Fisher cat and fox a few times. Coyote, and I found bear scat on my deck last year. A couple years ago a moose was found in town making whoopee to a minivan. The minivan was totaled. :)

[M-technik-3]

Yeah, I live fairly close to LRP now, takes about 30 minutes to get there via the back roads since I now live 2 minutes from CT border. We are in a older growth region of Mass with Barkhampsted right next door so the amount of woodlife is crazy compared to being just down the hill in Westfield.

I do miss the central ac but pool and lack of police sirens makes up for the few amenities.

[packratbimmer]

Oh - and they will come in the house so hide the honey jar!

[15Michaeljoseph]

M-Tec, where are you now? 2 min from the CT boarder? Hmmm moving closer to me I see...;)

Bears are scary. I've only ever seen one in the wild though.

--Mike

[M-technik-3]

Granville about a mile from Town Hall.

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