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More bear reports coming in, all added to Sudbury.com’s online bear map

Help us plot where bears are being spotted most often
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Hope Marchbank snapped photos of a big bruin wandering around Hillsdale Crescent, off York Street, near Bell Park on April 16. (Supplied)

Sudbury.com received three more bear reports last night as spring weather brings the warm weather, and bruins start wandering out of their dens in search of food.

At Sudbury.com, we decided it would interesting to plot all the reports we receive on a map, and see which areas are getting the most wandering bruins.

We need your help to do that though. Bear photos, videos or even simply locations (“I saw a sow and three cubs on Attlee on Tuesday,” for example) would help us put that map together.

You can send reports, photos and video to [email protected], you can post them in the comments below the story, or share them with us on our Facebook page, Facebook.com/SudburyDotCom.

You can view the map here. It’s part of the news map section of Sudbury.com (which you can find under the dropdown News menu on the homepage). In the top right corner of the map is another dropdown menu. It defaults to All Categories, but if you click the arrow you can specify Local News, Police News, Sports, Bear Sightings or Potholes.

Each pin on the map will link you to a story.

As for the new reports we received, Hope Marchbank let us know about a bear in her Hillsdale Crescent area near Bell Park that was spotted fairly early, on April 16.

A reader who calls themselves Noll Troll told us about a bear in their driveway on Somerset Street in Minnow Lake during the evening of April 24. Noll Troll says bears are common in the neighbourhood in the spring, and one even that crawled through their kitchen window a few years back.

As well, reader Tanya McCaffey says she watched a bear wander across Dominion Drive near Frost Avenue in Val Therese on April 23.

And remember, now is the time to be bear wise. Once bears learn your neighbourhood is a buffet, they’ll keep coming back for more.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry recommends removing all birdfeeders from your property at this time of year, as well as remembering to secure all garbage in containers and minimize odours and other attractants.

It is also recommended that you not put garbage and recycling at the curb until the morning of garbage collection, again to cut down on odours and attractants and to prevent your street from being a smorgasbord for hungry bears.
 


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