{"id":7597,"date":"2022-08-14T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/family-of-bears-spotted-playing-in-ct-backyard\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T23:01:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:01:23","slug":"family-of-bears-spotted-playing-in-ct-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=7597","title":{"rendered":"Family of bears spotted playing in CT backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>AVON \u2014 A family of bears visited an Avon family Sunday, spending a few minutes playing in the family&#8217;s backyard.<\/p>\n<p>The bears, including some cubs, fell into the hammock and climbed onto the chairs placed in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Mathews, who sent a video of the encounter, said he and his family were sitting at the kitchen table, enjoying a morning cup of coffee, when the bears were spotted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bears playing in an Avon backyard on August 14, 2022\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vqOYG-NEjMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was interesting to watch them play from a distance,&#8221; Mathews said.  &#8220;It&#8217;s great to see them enjoying themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mathews said bears were not particularly common in New York City, where he resides.<\/p>\n<p>But now he has seen them twice when visiting family in Avon.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, a bear passed by while he was sitting outside, walking between him and the house, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ctdeep.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=924a7664caac4b9ba54512233b7d5495\">According to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection<\/a>there have been 7,618 bear sightings across Connecticut so far in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>That includes 352 in Avon, officials reported.<\/p>\n<p>william.lambert@hearstmediact.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/news\/article\/Watch-Family-of-bears-spotted-playing-in-CT-17372796.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVON \u2014 A family of bears visited an Avon family Sunday, spending a few minutes playing in the family&#8217;s backyard. The bears, including some cubs, fell into the hammock and climbed onto the chairs placed in the yard. Justin Mathews, who sent a video of the encounter, said he and his family were sitting at the kitchen table, enjoying a morning cup of coffee, when the bears were spotted. &#8220;It was interesting to watch them play from a distance,&#8221; Mathews said. &#8220;It&#8217;s great to see them enjoying themselves.&#8221; Mathews said bears were not particularly common in New York City, where&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}