‘An Amazing Sight to See’: Video Shows Bear Swimming with 2 Cubs on Its Back in Mass. Reservoir

Mother bear and cubs sighted near Ski Club Road

'She was not aggressive but it is a concern as she headed towards populated areas to the south'

‘An amazing sight to see’: Video shows bear swimming with 2 cubs on its back in Mass. reservoir

A fisherman captured video on June 25 of a bear swimming across the Quabbin Reservoir to an island with two bear cubs on its back.

Watch This Black Bear Ferry Her Tiny Cubs Across a Huge Reservoir

It’s not every day you see a black bear with two cubs riding piggyback across one of the biggest bodies of water in Massachusetts. But that’s exactly what angler Izzy Drost of Greenfield captured on video last week while fishing with his buddy, John LaQuire, on the Quabbin Reservoir. The pair spotted a sow black bear paddling hard through open water with a pair of young cubs clinging to her back. He caught the whole thing on video, and the Massa…