On his way home from work yesterday evening around 4 PM, Ian McDonald passed the Fallowfield train station in Nepean, when he observed 4 to 5 Ottawa Police Officers walking down the tracks with hands on their guns.
McDonald noticed that the police where spread out in a line at about 10 feet apart. He kept his eye on the area to see what was transpiring, just as a bus went down Fallow field Road.
When McDonald was approximately half way to Greenbank, he discovered what the officers where searching for – when he spotted a black bear tearing across the open field just north of the train station.
There is still no word on what occurred or if the bear has been captured.
It must be a bad week for misguided bears as yesterday we heard from Tom in Kemptville, about a black bear reported wandering around his children’s school property.
Thanks to Ian McDonald for this on-the-spot report…if you witness anything out of the ordinary with local fish or wildlife, please drop me a line!
(Note: the photograph is unrelated to this story)
Outdoorsguy