Chocolate Lily
Maybe I should have called this post 'Bear Food 3' as for each of the last two years around this time I've posted a food that is a particular…
Bear Food 2
Click to Enlarge Image Around this time last year I published the post Bear Food! So this spring I thought I'd publish a shot of another spring time favourite of…
Looking For Berries
Click to Enlarge Image Here's another black bear shot from this summer. This mom and her cub were out looking for berries amongst the bushes along the river. It was…
River Walk Grizzly
Click to Enlarge Image Earlier this week I got to photograph this male grizzly bear walking through a river on the BC coast searching for salmon. Chum salmon were still…
Field Update
So, I was walking back early one morning to my campsite when a black bear came wandering out of the site next to mine, ‘hey bear’ calls I and he…
Coastal Black Bear
Click to Enlarge Image A black bear (Ursus americanus) of the BC coast looks up from his foraging along the shore to check us out before continuing on his…
Bear Food!
Last week's warm Easter weekend sun had many out in their gardens and we were no exception. The sun also brought a dormant wood ant colony back to life on…
Time To Wake Up
With the arrival of spring, bears and wildlife in general along the BC coast will be waking from their winter slumbers. Hopefully many of the bears I got to know…
Humpback Whale Breach
In late fall as the bears of the British Columbia coast are thinking about heading up to the mountains for the winter, the humpback whales of the coast are…
Sasquatch?
No this isn't a sasquatch, but maybe an indication of how people sometimes think they've seen one. This is a grizzly bear having a good back rub on a rub…
Cinnamon Bear
Not all North American black bears are black! As well as the white black bears - the kermode or spirit bear, the BC coast is also home to another non-black…
Spirit Bear Looks Back
This is a spirit or kermode bear that I got to photograph a little while back in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. You can see more spirt bears…
Grizzly Bear Cub – Day 8
Today is the penultimate day for our grizzly bear cub story and as fall arrives it is clear the cub has learnt well from his mum. He looks healthy and…
Grizzly Bear Cub – Day 7
Later the same day, after we saw mom and cub part, she was seen mating with one of the large males that had come down on to the estuary the…
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