Bear pops up again -- this time in South Seattle
SEATTLE -- A wayward black bear that has been sighted in several Seattle-area neighborhoods has apparently surfaced again in South Seattle.
Police say a person called late Thursday morning to report seeing the bear near the 1700 block of S. Ferdinand Street. Several Seattle police officers are now in the area seeing if they can finally track him down.
If that indeed is the same bear, he's covered quite a bit of distance as the last sighting was up in Shoreline Tuesday morning near Hamlin Park -- about 15 miles away and on the other side of Downtown Seattle.
The Shoreline School District says a jogger running on the track at Kellogg Middle School Tuesday spotted the bear in the nearby park around 6:30 a.m.
On Monday, fish and wildlife agents were in Shoreline's Twin Ponds park tracking the small black bear hoping to hit it with a tranquilizer and move it out to the mountains but had no luck.
Over the weekend, the bear was spotted in Ballard, and the week before, there was a report of the bear in the Woodway neighborhood of Edmonds.
Wildlife officials said Tuesday they are hoping to help the bear get to where it needs to go, but since the bear is covering a lot of ground on its own, they think eventually he will find his way. Wildlife officials will respond if the bear gets trapped in a tree or is spotted or trapped in a backyard.
Police say a person called late Thursday morning to report seeing the bear near the 1700 block of S. Ferdinand Street. Several Seattle police officers are now in the area seeing if they can finally track him down.
If that indeed is the same bear, he's covered quite a bit of distance as the last sighting was up in Shoreline Tuesday morning near Hamlin Park -- about 15 miles away and on the other side of Downtown Seattle.
The Shoreline School District says a jogger running on the track at Kellogg Middle School Tuesday spotted the bear in the nearby park around 6:30 a.m.
On Monday, fish and wildlife agents were in Shoreline's Twin Ponds park tracking the small black bear hoping to hit it with a tranquilizer and move it out to the mountains but had no luck.
Over the weekend, the bear was spotted in Ballard, and the week before, there was a report of the bear in the Woodway neighborhood of Edmonds.
Wildlife officials said Tuesday they are hoping to help the bear get to where it needs to go, but since the bear is covering a lot of ground on its own, they think eventually he will find his way. Wildlife officials will respond if the bear gets trapped in a tree or is spotted or trapped in a backyard.