A Stonebridge subdivision homeowner captured an unexpected visitor on his Ring camera early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Donald Alderman said he was reviewing footage from his security cameras, as he does each morning, when he discovered a bear had wandered through his yard around 4 a.m.<\/p>\n
“I was reviewing my cameras like I do every morning and was shocked,” Alderman said. “It did destroy the bird feeders. At least he had a good meal.”<\/p>\n
Alderman said he did not see the bear in person, only on the recorded footage.<\/p>\n
According to Cyndi Hoffman, animal warden with the Newnan Police Department, bear sightings are common in Coweta County this time of year.<\/p>\n
“It’s common this time of year,” Hoffman said. “Bears come through Coweta County every year. The more populated we get, the more phone calls we get.”<\/p>\n
While many sightings occur overnight, Hoffman said bears are active during the day as well. She recently received video of a bear in the Iron Drive area behind Waffle House near Kroger at about 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Residents are encouraged to remove anything that might attract bears, including bird feeders, pet food and unsecured garbage.<\/p>\n
“Keep anything that might entice them put away and closed up,” Hoffman said.<\/p>\n
If residents encounter a bear, Hoffman said the best course of action is simple.<\/p>\n
“Stay away. Leave them alone,” she said. “They’ll go away on their own.”<\/p>\n
Hoffman said bears passing through neighborhoods are typically just moving through the area because Newnan and Coweta County do not provide stable habitat for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Stonebridge subdivision homeowner captured an unexpected visitor on his Ring camera early Wednesday morning. Donald Alderman said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3729,3,79,201],"class_list":["post-726573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-local","tag-news","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726573","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=726573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}