Wellesley is finally bearable
By adamg - Wed, 05/27/2009 - 9:42am.
A bear was spotted in the woods in Wellesley on Saturday.
No word on what it was doing there, but police officers gave chase, which somebody with a fevered mind might imagine started a chain reaction in which a deer was so frightened by a rampaging bear charging it that it started running and didn't stop until it got to the Prudential tunnel in Boston, where it would sadly be hit by a car.
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I know what he was doing there
He was scouting locations for a Dunkin' Donuts shop. Nature has run amok in Wellesley! Do not let nature open up any Dunkin' Donuts shops in Wellesley!
Too late
There's already one on Rte. 9.
OK, granted, it's Rte. 9. And it's almost in Natick. But still ...
And Reeds Pond is 1/8 mile
And Reeds Pond is 1/8 mile behind that Dunkin Donuts (formerly a Mr. Donuts). Reeds Pond, it's neighboring swamp, and the stream that feeds it are all part of an extensive set of green corridors that run through Wellesley & act as wildlife highways.
I live a half block from the pond and have rabbits, deer, turkeys, possums, raccoons, foxes, and the occasional coyote in my yard. The legendary moose was actually a 1/4 mile eastbound on Rt. 9 in a slightly different wetland (the one that regularly floods the highway, across from St. James the Great church.)
Perrin Park, famous here on UH for it's off-leash dog battles, is a few blocks north of the highway, buried in the heart of the Wellesley Fells neighborhood. The Verizon cell tower fire, also noted here on UH, was/is a block down & across the highway.
FWIW the Cochituate Aqueduct runs diagonally behind that DD, under Rt. 9, and continues alongside Morses Pond across the highway to downtown Wellesley. It is notorious for the Grenedier killing.
So a bear, yeah, one more thing in the neighborhood.