{"id":745459,"date":"2026-06-18T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745459\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:50:11","slug":"black-bear-feasting-on-chickens-in-eastport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/745459\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Feasting on Chickens in Eastport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/black-bear-advisory.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Black Bear Feasting on Chickens in Eastport\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A trap has been set up in the Eastport area to capture a marauding black bear that has been feeding on domestic chickens. <\/p>\n<p>A caller to VOCM Open Line with Brian Callahan says despite the trap, the bear continues to visit the area. <\/p>\n<p>She says she and her neighbours have already lost dozens of chickens. <\/p>\n<p>She says she alone has lost at least 17 chickens.<\/p>\n<p>The town has issued an advisory to residents to keep an eye out and to report any sightings to the local forestry office. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A trap has been set up in the Eastport area to capture a marauding black bear that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-745459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}