VIDEO: Bear Caught on Camera in Albany County Backyard

Mark Davis, Facebook Video

Apparently this garbage can was a feast

When Mark Davis woke up Wednesday morning, he had a visitor. A black bear was going through his trash around 8:30am. He caught the encounter on camera. 

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Deputy Chief of Police James Rexford tells the Times Union, they've come to expect bear sightings in the spring and summer months: 

This time of year we get bear sightings. It is pretty common in town.

 

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