A black bear cub was seen around 4:15 p.m. Thursday sitting on a catwalk on the side of a house on Barranca Mesa. It was eating from a bucket of birdseed, which it had turned over. The cub showed no signs of aggression; it just wanted a snack. Photo by Ken Hanson

The black bear cub is shimmying down the rails of a catwalk, ending up on a Virginia Creeper trellis Thursday at a residence on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Ken Hanson