Field Update 4/13 – Salmon Grizzly
Click to Enlarge Image It took a long wait over the last couple of weeks for some bears to show up in decent light, but when this female grizzly bear…
Click to Enlarge Image It took a long wait over the last couple of weeks for some bears to show up in decent light, but when this female grizzly bear…
I was travelling between locations in northern BC very early one morning recently when I spotted what I first thought was a large white boulder in a field, but as…
Here is another quick update from my current field trip. As well as black bears whilst at Anan Creek in SE Alaska last week, I also saw a number of…
Here is my first update from the field after an exhilarating week in the SE Alaskan bush. I spent a week camping in a forest service cabin at Anan Creek…
Click to Enlarge Image The return of the northern resident orca pods to Johnstone Strait on the BC coast had been a little slow this year and on 31st July…
Click to Enlarge Image Here is a shot from last fall of a grizzly bear getting stuck into a salmon on a river on the BC coast. The salmon/grizzly bear…
Click to Enlarge Image Here is a female Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) photographed feeding on garden flowers last week. Hummingbird numbers have noticeably dropped over the last week here on…
Here is another shot from the BC coast of the three young brothers (see Standing Guard) that separated from their Mom towards the end of May. Normally 'butt' shots don't…
Here is one for the sea-bird lovers out there, the Black Footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) not usually seen inshore on the BC coast, but is found in open water offshore…
Here is a shot taken one early June morning a couple of years back and shows a very eerie Discovery Passage, off Campbell River. Misty mornings such as this are…
For those who saw my post from earlier this year, King of the Khutz, this is the same bear twelve months later and this was his first day down on…
Click to Enlarge Image This is 'Springer' or Northern Resident Orca A73, photographed by me a couple of years ago. Springer is a 'good news' story here on the BC…
Click to Enlarge Image Here are a pair of twin grizzly bear cubs, born last year and identified recently as both being female. I came across these two yearlings in…
Click to Enlarge Image Here are a pair of Bald Eagles that I came across recently amongst a convocation hanging out in the trees above some rapids here on the…
Click to Enlarge Image Here is another shot of a Beaver (Castor canadensis) from last fall and as today is Canada Day I thought it would be a good time…