New Bear Sightings Reported, Starting In Westchester

It started out with a report of a black bear perched in a tree in Yorktown around noontime on Friday.

A black bear spotted in Sloatsburg on Aug. 5.
Photo Credit: *Robert Albert*

This bear was captured on camera on Gold Road in Stormville.
Photo Credit: *Susan Ray*

The 'Brewster Bear' gets acquainted with a tree.
Photo Credit: *Sonia Gelbart*

Another photo of the bear sighted in Brewster.
Photo Credit: *Sonia Gelbart*

08/24/2018 6:32 p.m.

The bear then fled the scene at Hanover Street almost as soon as Daily Voice posted a news alert. A reader then reported seeing it a short time later near Jennifer's Restaurant on Route 118.

Then, it was on to Brewster, where the local high school's mascot is, in fact, a Bear, and where a big ol' bruin was captured on camera by Sonia Gelbart in her backyard.

Finally, the day wrapped up on the bear watch desk (at least, we think) with word of a sighting in Stormville.

There's one caveat though. The photo sent in by reader Susan Ray is from a sighting last Friday, Aug. 17, on Gold Road in Stormville.

We also received a photo taken in Rockland earlier this month as reader Robert Albert caught up with a black bear on a street in Sloatsburg (above).

Those are some bear facts, all right.

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