Calgary councillor Diane Colley-Urquhart will have a great bear story for her colleagues at the next meeting.

The Ward 13 rep woke up to police, a helicopter and media outside her southwest Calgary home this morning where a black bear had taken refuge in a spruce tree not15 feet from her front door.

"He looks like he's sleeping, he couldn't really be bothered with all this activity," Colley-Urquhart told CBC Friday morning on a radio hit from inside her Bayview home in southwest Calgary.

"He's probably a couple hundred pounds ... curled up in the upper part of a big spruce tree."

Fish and Wildlife officers brought the bruin down by way of tranquilizer around 10 a.m. Friday, nearly three hours after the ordeal began.

A Fish and Wildlife officer said the bear seems too comfortable with humans. As a result, it will be transported well away from Calgary to an area with considerably less chance for bear-human interaction.

On Thursday, Fish and Wildlife officials said they were monitoring a number of bear and bobcat sightings in Calgary.

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Fish and Wildlife spokesman Brendan Cox said officers were keeping track of the situation, after receiving reports of animals being spotted in the city’s southwest.

Cox said the best course of action for anyone seeing wildlife is to leave the animals alone and report sightings to Fish and Wildlife’s 24-hour line at 1-800-642-3800.

Just opened my door to get the papers. Police car. CBC. Told to get back in house. Bear in tree. — Diane ColleyUrquhart (@BigRedyyc) September 12, 2014

Helicopters. Police cars. Fish & Wildlife. This black bear hasn't woke up yet. pic.twitter.com/OFXldSFvnh — Diane ColleyUrquhart (@BigRedyyc) September 12, 2014

Bear captured and ready for transport pic.twitter.com/PhVsBn66KK — Jim Wells (@SUNjimwells) September 12, 2014