Visitor at work today Pic NDR

When their legs look short to me it usually mean they have a large body and those legs look pretty short.
 
Bill knows better than most, w/ full protection, CT's bears become fully mature and in doing so they become quit large. I think they are pretty much in every town and even the cities get visited by wondering bears. Tough in reality I'm seeing them less often because everyone is getting good about keeping trash and food indoors. Rarely does anyone in the neighborhood try to have a bird feeder. With less food available they don't visit the house as often, but with the fruit trees starting to produce, I suspect they will be back shortly.

Scott
 
Scott, nice looking bear. Gotta think it's finding some food or garbage around some place to keep hanging around.

Last winter we had a bear with yearling three cubs denning about 50 yards from the back door in a suburban neighborhood near Bangor. The largest of the three cubs was the largest ever weighed by Maine DIFW, and one of the very few times they've had a sow get three cubs who survived their first winter.

Turned out someone in the neighborhood had been feeding them for over a year . . . . .

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/03/...e-4-bears-living-not-far-from-his-front-door/

Gotta give the staff at Maine DIFW--and the landowner--credit. The bears weren't causing any mischief, so they darted and weighed them and put them back to sleep in somebody's back yard. Word was they emerged in the spring and moved some place a little more secluded.
 
Scott: I live in Northwest Indiana right on the southern border of Lake Michigan, about 50 miles or a one hour drive to downtown Chicago. Since July we've had an interesting scenario with a large male black bear who has migrated from Northern Michigan to Indiana. Till now, there hasn't been a confirmed wild black bear sighting in Indiana since 1871. This big guy has been roaming a wooded area on the Michigan/Indiana border, destroyed a honey bee hive farm, hitting trash cans/bird feeders, leaving scat on driveways, and there have been multiple complaints of this bear coming onto residents porches. DNR was hoping the bear would track back north for mating season, and has set up a couple of baited barrel traps without resultant success. DNR is worried about injury to either humans or the bear from a possible encounter, and are hoping to confront and sedate the bear with tranquilizer darts with relocation to Michigan.


Ken Zaborski
 
Carl, yes, cabled. We relocated him to a safer area (from suburban area to large tract of reservoir land) about two weeks ago.
 
I thought he was. I've got a couple of friends in Ct. sounds like you guys have a pretty healthy population of Black Bear. Neat pic thanks for sharing.
 
They are everywhere. After the last two winters in NY. Lots of mast and fall food, then hibernation = bumper crop of Black Bears. Deer and Turkey populations tanked... SOOooooo Bear hunting is the main selling point. Good luck with that. Sorry, for me they do not taste that good, and I have eaten my share that were not "Dump Bears". I very much like to see them while hunting (incredible animal), but for food value no desire to kill one and drag it out. I have helped other hunters do so on a few occasions. Have no desire to do so myself.
 
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