Watching For Salmon 2
The edges of some Vancouver Island river systems are protected from collapse by quarried boulders and this in turn makes for a great fishing platform for local wildlife. Here we…
U-Turn
I remember this location well - I had been fortunate to spend a week there, watching bears, brown and black coming and going feeding on the pink salmon which were…
It Wasn’t Me…
…I was framed! This young black bear looks up at me from the river with such a guiltless look on his face - as if declaring his innocence. But look…
Big Old Black Bear 2
Here’s another low tide seaweed backed shot from the BC coast of the slightly odd looking Big Old Black Bear that I featured back in 2021. Unlike the first image,…
Black Bear on a Plinth
We’ve had a ‘Lion on a Plinth’ and a ‘Statuesque Grizzly’ standing atop a rocky plinth and now we feature a Black Bear on a plinth! I was able to…
Tricoloured Bear
Whilst on my road trip through parts of northern BC back in June I briefly spotted this female black bear making her way through some wild rose bushes and as…
Friday Flashback – Black Bear on the Beach
Today's Friday Flashback is from 15th September 2017 and is entitled 'Black Bear on the Beach'. This big bear was certainly a beauty and I remember sitting watching him for…
Friday Flashback – White Faced Black Bear
Today's Friday Flashback is from 12th June 2017 and is entitled 'White Faced Black Bear'. 2017 was a crazy year for seeing black bears in the Khutzeymateen, I'd never seen…
Hello From BC
Here’s a mid-week bonus from my ongoing BC road trip. When I first spotted this large black bear, he was rubbing on the power pole seen here to his left,…
Beachside Bruiser
Here we see a large and fairly old looking black bear out searching for food amongst the shoreline pickings of low tide on the BC coast. This beachside bruiser certainly…
A Mother’s Eye
Standing on the side of a river, fishing for salmon, this black bear momma looks up and casts her eye on the surroundings, no doubt a safety check in case…
Cave Bear!
Well, this obviously isn’t a ‘real’ cave bear, but a young black bear emerging from his small cave were he liked to head for to eat his salmon in safety,…
Mussels For Lunch
Well we haven’t seen a black bear for a while, in my case literally, but I dug this one out of the archives, one of many I haven’t got to…
Enjoying A Pink
This young black bear seems to be giving us the eye to make sure we’re not about to leap off the river bank and try to steal the pink salmon…
Big Black Bear 2
Well, at the time of this shot, you wouldn’t need to worry if it was a good salmon year on this particular river system - just take a look at…