6-foot black bear emerges from hibernation returns to same RI house

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Ellen Jones heard one thing on the again door, pulled apart the curtain and noticed a bear standing on his hind legs on the display.

He confirmed his tooth and growled.

She referred to as to her husband. “Honey, I feel you have to be right here. There is a bear on the again door.”

“‘Why do not you invite him in? Possibly he needs a cup of espresso.’ He thought I used to be kidding.”

This yr they mounted a digicam

That is the third yr Ellen and Paul Jones have seen a bear of their yard. This yr that they had a mounted, motion-sensitive digicam prepared. 

The bear visits solely yearly. This yr their feeder was on a 72-inch pole, and he was taller, they mentioned. He bent the pole at its base.

A state wildlife staffer had informed them to take fowl feeders down on the finish of April.

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Chicken seed is ‘a bear no-no.’

David Kalb, the supervising wildlife biologist on the R.I Division of Environmental Administration’s Division of Fish & Wildlife, referred to as consuming fowl seed “a bear no-no.”

He mentioned the bear seemed like an grownup male black bear, of common measurement, in all probability over 250 kilos. “Bears enter and depart their winter torpor primarily based on meals useful resource availability. Extra meals will make them go down late and are available out early however usually mid-April is about proper for emergence.

He guessed that the bear lives in Rhode Island and mentioned this was the primary report of a bear being out this spring.

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