‘It’s pretty alarming’: Urban Wildlife encounters in Winnipeg this week

When you consider what kind of animals you might encounter in your Winnipeg neighborhood, a bear probably isn’t on your list.

When you consider what kind of animals you might encounter in your Winnipeg neighborhood, a bear probably isn’t on your list.

But that’s exactly what residents of Wildwood stumbled upon on Tuesday.

A black bear was spotted roaming around the residential area.

“Living in Wildwood, it’s very normal to come across different types of animals and creatures within the neighbourhood," said area resident Nicholas Gray. "I was working from home and saw on Facebook that there was an alert of a black bear, which I thought was very surprising."

“I've seen everything and anything that you could think of in the neighborhood,” he said, adding the bear eventually ended up in a very tall tree.

He said the bear’s choice to curl up at the top of a tree put a wrench in Manitoba Conservation’s plan to sedate it.