Wednesday, June 27, 2012

"The bear went over the mountain..."

Or in this case the Cape Cod Canal and then the Berkshires all to get to the Cape.
Poor guy probably just wanted to go back to the beach.

Wandering Cape Cod bear captured in Boston suburb

BOSTON (Reuters) - He's baaack: A male black bear captured on Cape Cod earlier this month, where it was tranquilized and moved to central Massachusetts, showed up again on Tuesday just six miles from downtown Boston. State officials said they had captured the bear in a tree in the Chestnut Hill area of Brookline, just west of Boston, and confirmed it was the same bear which roamed the Cape for about two weeks before being captured and relocated on June 12. The bear was identified by a tag placed in its ear. It had probably traveled about 100 miles. .... The so-called Cape Cod bear was first spotted May 27 in the Cape Cod area, the easternmost part of the state. State wildlife officials think the bear swam across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland.
We were on Cape Cod from May 23 to May 31. You don't suppose he stowed away on the trailer and rode east from the Adirondacks, do you?

3 comments:

Rev. Paul said...

So the bear's hitching a ride with you ... don't you know it's illegal to transport wild critters?

Tsk, tsk.

MaddMedic said...

So you admit transporting illegal aliens do you?

joated said...

Two things guys:

1)If he did hitch a ride, it was as a stowaway and I disavow any knowledge of his presence upon/beneath our trailer.

2)He's a native American as far as I can tell (unless he swam the St. Lawrence River too) so he's no illegal alien unless you count Massachusetts as a forgein country--and it may well be.