{"id":525123,"date":"2026-03-15T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525123\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:28:11","slug":"bear-sighting-in-putnam-mid-hudson-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525123\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear sighting in Putnam &#8211; Mid Hudson News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARMEL- Aidan Galligan looked out of his front door Saturday and couldn\u2019t believe his eyes when a huge black bear lumbered across the family\u2019s lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Bears, like other wild animals, are foraging for food in the wake of the snowy and frigid winter.<\/p>\n<p>Aidan\u2019s dad, who owns the Carmel Flower Shop, said he never saw such destruction of flora and fauna caused by deer and other wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy trees and shrubs have been decimated since the snow cover was so heavy this winter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In order to keep bears at bay, the New York State DEC has encouraged residents to refrain from placing bird feeders out of doors while making sure garbage pails are tightly secured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/midhudsonnews.com\/?attachment_id=281952\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-281952 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281952\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_1835-rotated.jpg\"\/><\/a>Galligan\u2019s bear<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARMEL- Aidan Galligan looked out of his front door Saturday and couldn\u2019t believe his eyes when a huge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[236513,78049,29080,45598,79,201],"class_list":["post-525123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-aidan-galligan","tag-bear-sighting","tag-carmel","tag-putnam-county","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}