{"id":760321,"date":"2026-07-13T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760321\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:29:15","slug":"bourne-police-relocate-wandering-black-bear-near-buzzards-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760321\/","title":{"rendered":"Bourne Police relocate wandering black bear near Buzzards Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bourne Police<\/a> relocated a black bear Sunday that had been wandering around the Buzzards Bay area near Cape Cod for multiple days, officials said. <\/p>\n

Around 7:30 a.m., officers and Bourne\u2019s Department of Natural Resources learned that the bear had made its way into Bourne Scenic Park, police said in a Facebook post Sunday. <\/p>\n

The park was founded in 1951 and has 439 camping sites, according to its website.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they observed the bear go back into the woods near a heavily populated area, police said. <\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Environmental Police responded and officers relocated the bear later in the day to a safer location, according to police. <\/p>\n

The bear was sedated and removed without incident, police said. <\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Environmental Police did not immediately respond to request for comment. <\/p>\n

On the fourth of July weekend, police responded to multiple reports of black bear sightings in D.W. Field Park<\/a>, located a 45-minute drive northwest of Bourne Scenic Park. Authorities have not verified whether the same bear was spotted in both incidents. <\/p>\n

Seeing a bear this time of year is a common occurrence, said Dave Wattles, black bear biologist for MassWildlife in a previous interview with the Globe<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The only bear species that resides in Massachusetts is the black bear, according to Wattles. Bear sightings are usually more frequent further west in Massachusetts, he said. <\/p>\n

People who come across a bear should keep a safe distance, he said. He advised against trying to scare the bear off because the animal might decide to stand its ground instead of running away. <\/p>\n

The state Environmental Police receives between 700 and 900 bear-related calls each year, Wattles said.<\/p>\n

Hannah Goeke can be reached at hannah.goeke@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bourne Police relocated a black bear Sunday that had been wandering around the Buzzards Bay area near Cape…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-760321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760321","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=760321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}