Swimming Grizzly
Click Photo to Enlarge I'm just back from a trip to the Khutzeymateen Provincial Park, inland along the Portland Canal on the northern BC coast. It is Canada's only wild…
First Sighting of the Year
I’m just back from my first foray into the field for this year and what a successful trip it was. I got to see (but not photograph) my first ever…
Silver Cub
This little silver grizzly bear cub was spotted along the BC coast late last spring accompanied by his mother and a sibling cub. Hopefully they have all made it safely…
I’m NOT A Trophy!
Sadly here in BC yesterday we once again saw the start of the trophy hunting season. Figures released on Friday show that in 2011, grizzly bear deaths alone, (those reported…
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…
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…
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…
Grizzly Bear Cub – Day 6
Early this morning the mother grizzly bear was acting very strange around her young son. Eventually she started charging at him, pushing him away. He would run, stop and look…
Grizzly Bear Cub – Day 5
Today mom has a very telling look in her eye, she seems to know what she has to do and the look says it all; ‘it’s time son, it’s time’.…
Grizzly Bear Cub – Day 4
Late spring 2011 and the now almost two and a half year old cub and his mother are the first grizzly bears I see this year. On this occasion, it…
Grizzly Bear Cub – Day 3
One year later (late spring 2010) and after his first full winter hibernating with his mother the young grizzly cub emerged looking much bigger and long legged almost like a…
Grizzly Bear Cub – Day 2
The small grizzly bear cub was full of life and enjoyed exploring his new world. He would love to climb and search amongst the rocks and fallen logs along the…
Grizzly Bear Cub – Day 1
This is a grizzly bear mom with her newborn cub hiding amongst the grass behind. The cub was born in the early part of 2009, probably around January in his…