Bear spotted multiple times in a Littleton neighborhood

LITTLETON, Colo. ( KDVR ) — Bears are out and about this time of year , and David Navarre experienced that firsthand Sunday morning.

Navarre has lived in Littleton for about eight years and has come across raccoons, deer, coyotes and even bobcats, but so far no bears — until recently.

He said he was in his hot tub for an early morning dip when he caught sight of something moving through the bushes at the edge of his yard.

“Just saw a large, black object moving across and it took me a second to actually look at it and realized it was a bear,” Navarre said with a laugh.

He watched as it moved along the perimeter, keeping its distance, then it started up the road and he managed to get a video of it. He said he didn’t recall being afraid, just excited at the opportunity to see the animal.

“I didn’t expect to see that,” he said.

Just a few houses down along Dutch Creek, Andrew Giamberadino said he must have passed the same bear like a ship in the night. Around 7 p.m., he was walking his dog when he spotted wet paw prints on the asphalt.

“I was like, ‘Those are bear tracks!’ But then I was like, ‘No. No, not gonna happen,'” he said.

Giamberadino and his family spend a lot of time in the mountains, and he is used to wild animals, but not one in his own neighborhood.

Giamberadino and Navarre reported the bear to Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, who told them they were going to be on the lookout.

CPW has said this is a busy time for bears as they try and eat around 20,000 calories a day to prepare for winter. They said it is a good idea to secure trash, bird seed and anything else bears can get into to discourage them from sticking around.

This is something Giamberadino said he is already planning on doing.

“I threw a bungee cord on my trash can just so I don’t have to pick up the trash tonight,” Giamberadino said.

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