Third Black Bear Sighting Reported In Weston - cbs4.com: "For the third time since Saturday, residents of a Weston neighborhood reported spotting a black bear in their back yards.
The million dollar estates in Windmill Reserve border suburban life and wildlife, but what Tomas Fernandez saw Sunday in his backyard was extremely wild.
'I was eating breakfast when I saw the bear behind the house in the lake. He was walking,' said Fernandez. 'I called my dad to see.'
His dad watched as the black bear spent a half hour in the backyard. This was enough time for Tomas to video tape his new neighbor. On the tape the bear is browsing around and then seen walking away toward trees."
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Hogs, bears, coyotes, cougars, fires...this is starting to remind me of the Book of Revelation. What's next? A plague of locusts?
The real issue may be that over the last decade or so, many very nice subdivisions and custom homes were built in what were previously remote and uninhabited locations. Nobody told the predators that they should relocate, and they decided that the trash and house pets were easy pickings. And there was no predator for them to fear, because of course you can't use a firearm near a subdivision. End result: you have bears in your yard.
I have an old friend who lives on Kodiak Island in Alaska. She had a nine foot tall brown bear rooting around in the dumpster. That fellow could have dismantled the building if he had been so inclined. In AK you know this sort of thing can happen occasionally, but in South Florida maybe you are surprised.
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