Sometimes even bears check the mail
A father and son are sharing some photos from a brief encounter with a trio of black bears they saw when they were driving home from work in a small northern Ontario town on Monday.
It happened around 6:30 p.m. on Robb Road in Blind River, Ont., about halfway between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie.
A black bear was seen standing next to a mailbox in northern Ontario earlier this week. Sept. 26/22 (Jamie and Jackson McLean)
Jackson McLean told CTV News his dad, Jamie, pointed out the bears as they were driving.
"I turned and got a brief glance of the three bears and told him there was two more in the back. So he reversed back to get a better look," McLean said.
"We sat there for about two minutes taking pictures, and the bears were not scared of us at all."
One photo shows a bear standing on its hind legs next to a mailbox on top of a wooden post.
It happened while the men were parked about 10 feet away, he said.
"The lot that they were on has been abandoned for a long time now," McLean added.
Three black bears were hanging around an abandoned property in Blind River on Monday. Sept. 26/22 (Jamie and Jackson McLean)
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