Doorbell video captures bear outside of Winslow Township home

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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Doorbell video captures bear outside of Winslow Township home
Video captured a bear outside of a home in Winslow Township, New Jersey.

WINSLOW TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A homeowner in Winslow Township, Camden County had an unexpected visitor recently.

Ring video sent in from Action News viewer Suzanne Pravitz shows the bear in front of her home.

She says this bear walked across her driveway along Myers Avenue.

Recently, there has been a rise in bear sightings in the region, including two in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and one in Ocean County, New Jersey.

READ MORE: Bear spotted twice in Delaware County

A bear was spotted twice on Tuesday in Delaware County.

Police in Delaware County are still looking for a black bear spotted Tuesday morning roaming through a man's backyard in Upper Chichester Township.

Anthony Lombardozzi lives in a wooded area of Garnet Mine Road. He says he was getting ready for work at about 7 a.m. when he heard his dog barking. He looked out his window and saw the bear in his yard.

"He walked right up the driveway here, straight across, and down into the woods. It was a black bear, medium-sized," he said.

About two miles down Garnet Mine Road, about 90 minutes earlier, Bethel Township Police Department got a similar call about a bear spotting near Clayton Park.