Take down your chook feeders and safe your trash.
That’s the message from officers after an enormous black bear was noticed a number of occasions in a Bay State neighborhood.
The Townsend Police Division is alerting residents concerning the bear sighting within the northern Middlesex County group.
“We want to alert residents in the Mason/Greenville Rd area about a large (approx. 400 lb) black bear that has recently been spotted multiple times in the neighborhood,” the police division posted. “The newest sighting was yesterday (Sunday) round 5:30 PM whereas individuals have been outdoors grilling.
“For everyone’s safety — especially if you have children or pets — please take these precautions for at least the next week: Remove all bird feeders; Secure and store trash; Close all doors (including garage doors),” Townsend Police added.
There are at the least 4,500 black bears in Massachusetts, in response to wildlife officers.
Bears will typically ignore pure meals, like acorns and nuts, in favor of a straightforward meal at a yard chook feeder or in somebody’s trash. Then they’ll break into yard rooster coops.
“Environmental Police advise that if the bear can’t find food for a week, it should move on to another area,” Townsend Police posted. “Let’s work together to help encourage the bear to move along to a safer place!”
Those that get pleasure from watching birds of their yard can add a water function or develop native crops, shrubs, and timber to draw birds.
Individuals with rooster coops, bee hives and livestock ought to set up electrical fencing to guard them from bears.
Additionally, when you come throughout a bear in your yard or on a path, give the bear house and slowly again up. Don’t be aggressive with bears. Don’t strategy bears or intrude between a feminine bear and her cubs. Don’t run.
Black bears reside and breed in Worcester County, northern Middlesex County, and west to the Berkshires.
Bears, principally younger males and a few breeding females, live in different jap Massachusetts communities alongside Route 495. Dispersing younger bears and wandering males typically discover themselves east of Route 495.
MassWildlife officers lately have responded to bear reviews on the South Shore, in Lexington and Harmony, and in different jap Massachusetts spots.
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