Decent size black bear spotted and filmed in the Greystone area of Hoover off 280 yesterday.
See link for news story and pics.

Not surprised that one would make it over to this part of Shelby County.

http://www.wbrc.com/story/38441378/hoover-couple-spots-bear-in-backyard

Dang the DCNR !!!

They should have never turned all them jokers loose up in that area!

Cool story, Mike.

Thanks for sharing the link.

Black bear spotted and photographed at Town Creek this past week as well. I was told that a biologist or warden took the picture but I don't know if that's fact. My SIL showed me the picture at lunch.

Unless that thing crossed hwy 280, which I doubt, it came from oak mt state park. Not a ton of woods in that exact area, just a thin strip in between Eagle Point and Hwy 119 leading back towards oak OMSP.

Makes sense when sightings go from 0 to multiple sightings a day in several areas.

Why would you doubt that it could or would cross US 280?

Bears are big. They're not dumb. They cross major highways all over the country, and sometimes get hit by vehicles just like other animals do.

The one from Shelby County easily could've come from the northeast part of the state, from the Cheaha-Talladega Forest area or from the southwest part of the state migrating northeast. No telling where it's from, unless DCNR has done or is doing hair samples for testing and can pinpoint the bear.

Yeah I know it's possible and it may have but that road is so heavily traveled that unless he crossed between 12:00 and 4:00 am, somebody would probably have seen him. I'm pretty sure the guy on the news report said he went back up in the woods the way he came. Almost everything that comes up on me in the woods goes back the way it came if it sees me.

That's what I was thinking. There's a LOT of woods that way. Personally, I'd love to have a decent size herd in Shelby Co.

get a grip, the one we darted in 1994 crossed I-20 near Arkadelphia Road and t-boned a Toyota Celica. Just a little bigger and more traffic that 280 ever saw.

it could of come from Clanton area also and crossed I-65

Well this just supports my point that a black bear is not going to cross hwy 280 unnoticed unless if it's in the middle of the early morning. But really, whatever, I've no interest in a pissing contest about whether a bear could have crossed hwy 280, of course one could, y'all win, I'm wrong.

There has been one seen between Calera and Columbiana or Shelby. Not that far from the Greystone area as the crow flies.

A lot of sightings in odd places lately. They need to do a better job when they release them into more remote areas.

whined like a petulant three year old. Damn boy.

The one in 94, if you were answering the calls, had to have crossed I-59/20 and I-65 60-65 times but without a doubt actually crossed both at least 4-5 times that I know really happened and one of those times it crossed 65 at 5:20 in the afternoon. I think most people assumed it was a large black dog because they weren’t use to seeing bears and also were distracted by traffic. Another officer happened to see it but it disappeared in the neighborhood like Houdini and wasn’t sighted again for several hours with probably 30 of us in the area seconds after it crossed. That was the night before it was captured

we got a dozen or more calls starting in northern Blount Co all the way to Bham Southern College, near where we darted it. I had to call the Toyota Celicas insurance agent to verify it was a black bear that hit him.

My boss has one on one of his game cameras from a few years ago down in the Calera area.

Two summers ago there was one in Balentrae Pelham/ alabaster area

Ive seen recent pics of one on a friends property in Shelby.