Black bears frolic in Roberts Creek backyard
Neville Judd planned on doing some late-summer gardening Sunday morning, until a mother bear and her cubs altered those plans.
Judd and his family awoke in their Roberts Creek home on the Sunshine Coast to see four bears frolicking on their backyard hammock.
“My wife Leah got up early, around 7 a.m., and went downstairs,” Judd said. “She called up and said ‘Nev, come see this.’
“It sounded serious, I thought maybe there was a tree down or something, I thought oh my god.”
But it was four black bears epitomizing cuteness. The Judds woke their children, Ryan and Emma, and the bruins entertained the family for 10 minutes or so before ambling off.
“I’d meant to take the hammock down because of the weather forecast,” Judd said. “It’s the one thing I forgot to do on Saturday.”
It wasn’t the first visit to the yard by the furry family, Judd said, but the first in about three months. “We had them in the yard in May and June two or three times. The cubs were much, much smaller, literally the size of our three cats.”
The cats, he added, were not as impressed by the bears’ backyard circus act as were the humans.