A bear might be roaming North Whidbey.

An anonymous resident posted a Ring Camera video on the Neighbors app which shows a bear lumbering through a yard at about 6 p.m. on Nov. 2. The map accompanying the video identifies the location roughly as the Cascade Place area off of East Troxell Road.

Ralph Downes, an enforcement officer for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said he hasn’t receive any reports of a bear on Whidbey Island, but he surmises that it’s probably real. The video can be viewed at neighbors.ring.com/n/VyP7jlEfpZ .

“That certainly looks like a healthy black bear,” he said, acknowledging that the animal appears to be pretty chunky.

Downes joked that the island was due for a bear, since one has showed up every two years since 2019. Prior to that, no bears had be

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