"It would've been about 4:30 in the morning, it was just getting daylight, and my dog, my dachshund was just barking, and we've had a skunk in our yard a couple times in the past two weeks and I thought that skunk must be out there. I went to grab the dog off the sill and I looked and I... I hollered at my wife and said 'Delores, get up! There's a bear in our yard!'"

That's the scene painted by Brian Meyer, the man who first spotted the bear in his front yard. 

According to Meyer, the black bear is about three feet tall when standing up on its hind legs, and looks to be in healthy condition. He and his wife Delores called the conservation officers quickly before the bear could flee, but once the officers showed up, the bear fled into the woods at Kenosee. No word yet on whether or not the officers have found the animal.

"All he was worried about was getting at my bird feeders and squirrel feeders which he did manage to get. My biggest concern was that we have a couple of hummingbird feeders on the front windows, and he kept looking up at it, and I thought 'don't you be getting up on your back legs and falling into my house'. He was there probably an hour."

He adds that in the 27 years Brian and his wife Delores have never seen a bear in the park.