Young Patch
This is a young sub-adult grizzly bear we named ‘Patch’ due to a thick clump of long dark fur that was always present on his back left leg. It didn’t…
Bear Buddies
Here we see a couple of good buddy bears that we’ve seen a few times - Junior and JJ. During their formative, sub-adult years these two bears, although not siblings…
Swimming Grizzly – An Update
A year ago now I provided an update on the first grizzly bear I got to photograph in the Khutzeymateen (see 5 Years On). 2022 actually marked my tenth year…
Chasing The Boys
Here we see our old favourite grizzly bear the ‘Queen of the Khutz’ photographed last spring. Now normally at this time of year, it’s the males that are chasing around…
Welcome to the Great Bear Rainforest
Here’s another fall shot I took a few years ago of pretty female grizzly bear right in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. We came around a bend in…
Sitting on the Falls
Having some time on my hands over the winter recently, gave me the opportunity to re-visit many files from my back catalogue of images and here’s an old shot of…
Still Learning!
I’m not sure if that’s an accusatory look or an embarrassed look, either way this young grizzly bear had just lost himself a slippery pink salmon (you can just see…
Fishing Momma
For most this is as close to standing in the river with a feeding grizzly bear as you’d want to get! Poised ready, with her back foot hard against a…
The Lookout
Here is a grizzly bear cub of the year seen on the BC coast keeping lookout whilst its mum and sibling are searching the bushes behind for berries. Taken in…
The Breakfast Twins
It’s hard to believe that getting on for ten years ago now I was fortunate to be able to rent a cabin in the Alaska bush for a week. I…
Smoked Salmon…
…Or old salmon? On fist sight, this young grizzly bear, photographed on a creek on the interior of BC a while back, could certainly look as if he’d got himself…
Grizzly Watching
We’d been stood at the end of a trail on the BC coast watching this female grizzly bear fishing and feeding for quite some time. She would catch a salmon…
Coastal Momma
Here’s a momma grizzly bear giving us the eye. She’s a bear of the BC coast that I know well and that little cub just in shot is one of…
Resilience
Back in 2018 I watched this bear one day as he swam across the Khutzeymateen inlet and disappeared at quite a pace off to the west. I didn’t see him…
River Float
After a fruitless search for salmon (see No Salmon) an adult male grizzly bear lets the current take him down river to continue his search. As he floats by he…