John Meehan was checking the surveillance cameras outside his Edina, Minnesota home Sunday morning. Little did he know what he would find.<\/p>\n
“Showed the video to my wife and she said ‘no way, that must be a dog or something.’ I was like . . . that’s definitely a bear,” said Meehan.<\/p>\n
The footage from just after 5:30 a.m. Saturday shows a black bear walking through Meehan’s backyard, not far from the Minneapolis border.<\/p>\n
Another neighbor had a similar sighting, capturing a backyard bear on camera in Edina’s Country Club neighborhood just after midnight Sunday.<\/p>\n
Elise Grennan and her dad Doug Grennan had their sighting near Lake Pamela Saturday night.<\/p>\n
“I was kind of just in the kitchen and I heard my aunt scream ‘oh my God, is there a black bear in our backyard,'” said Elise Grennan.<\/p>\n
“She had to cross through quite a bit of urban places,” said Doug Grennan.<\/p>\n
“I’m not too alarmed because I’ve seen bears up at the cabin and stuff like that, so I know they’re generally not going to harm too many things,” said Meehan.<\/p>\n
The Minnesota DNR said black bears are expanding outside their typical range. They’re working to better understand it and they invite people who’ve spotted them to submit that info online<\/a>.<\/p>\n If bears become a nuisance,\u00a0<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n