Bear caught on camera in Hatfield

Western Massachusetts News, Weather & Sports
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Mass Appeal Host Priscilla Ress shares a video of a bear in her neighborhood.
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And the black bears are coming out of hibernation.
You know, they are usually shy.
They usually avoid people.
There is no usual when springtime comes out
and they want to get into, yep, that's my backyard
and that's my bear.
Attracted to food sources, looking for food there,
obviously.
They look for, if you didn't put the lids on the garbage can,
bird feeders are a big one, pet food.
And they are most active during the spring and the fall.
But can show up any time that food is around.
Rarely dangerous, but is still wild animals.
And we tell you, do not go near them.
OK, next time.
I actually knocked on that neighbor's door.
Were you following the bear?
Yes, I did.
And then I went to my neighbor.
I know, and I went to my neighbor,
and I went, there's a bear in your backyard.
And he went, oh, cool.
I mean, nobody in my neighborhood
really seemed particularly, I saw it swinging one time
from a bird feeder.
Is this a full-grown bear, or is this like a baby bear?
Did you want me to go up and ask him?
No, but I mean, like, from your viewpoint,
because I can't tell.
He's pretty big.
Is it?
He was pretty big.
And it looked kind of like, oh, I'm going to be afraid of you,
I'm going to be afraid of you.
Then it turned around like that.
I could have charged you.
Maybe this isn't such a great idea.
I got excited.
Maybe you don't be like the people that
touch the buffalo in the parks.
Yeah, no, that would absolutely, you
know that would absolutely be me.
But it was, they're really.
I feel like you would be the person that
tries to feed the bear with like some bird seed,
and then you just get a swipe.
Well, I also, no, no, they like me.
We're friends.
We are, it is also, they are so, everybody
talks about the bears, talks about the bears.
But I actually, not only did I get to see it,
but I did get too close.
But they're really, they're so beautiful.
I mean, they are massive.
That is, well, I mean, I have a Doberman
that's twice the size of my Doberman.
Yeah, that is a very majestic and we should say wild bear.
It's not Priscilla's pet bear.
That is a wild bear.
So we, once again, do not approach bears
because you don't know how they're going to act,
and they are, can be very vicious.
