It was an interesting Sunday in one Manchester, New Hampshire neighborhood, thanks to a bear who made himself right at home in Salah Flaih's backyard.
"When I looked up, there was a black bear in my head," Flaih said. "Who would ever think that?"
He shot cell phone video showing the bear in a tree in his backyard.
Area residents were surprised to see the bear, discovered Sunday afternoon after several dogs around started barking.
“I was like, is that a dog? And I looked, and I'm like, no, that's a bear,” Lisa Gibson recalled, saying she didn't feel scared at all.
"It was kind of neat," one man who lives nearby said.
PHOTOS: Bear Makes Himself at Home in Manchester Backyard
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Officers from the New Hampshire Fish and Game department arrived and waited for the bear to eventually come down from the tree, out Flaih's backyard and then made a run for it.
"Ya know, I've lived in New Hampshire for 20 years, I've lived in Maine for 13 years, and I've never seen wildlife like that, like beyond a deer or a squirrel or whatever, but never a bear, and it's like really bizarre," Gibson said.
Wildlife officials were able to get the bear down without having to use a tranquilizer.
Residents say they’ll be watching out for the bear’s return.
