Photo time stamp: 7/1/2015 12:01 a.m. Today’s and tomorrow’s photos show that young bald eagles learn by example. Although the background and photo brightness are different the time stamps tell the story…
Grizzly Watching
Grizzly Bears are magnificent and the biggest reason visitors choose our lodge!
Grizzly bears thrive here and the viewing opportunities are spectacular. We have operated our Grizzly Bear Lodge for decades and know the prime spots for bear watching. The ultimate grizzly bear photo opportunities.
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Soon the mother comes across the river and the young male retreats up the bank with its salmon. This is definitely a good move for our viewing as the bear in now about seven meters (yards) from our camera lens on the viewing platform. Moral of the story: “never mess with a mother grizzly with cubs” or “good photos are more often a result of luck than skill”.
A Grizzly story in Six parts 5 of 6
With this confidence the grizzly takes the salmon to one side of the river and starts to eat. This works for a few minutes…
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The second non-family member grizzly finally catches its first salmon and immediately looks toward the mother. This bear is a four or five year old male and seems pretty confident…
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The larger bear did not put up a fight. The mother took the salmon and the cubs back to the nook or their dinner table. The story continues…
A Grizzly story in Six parts 2 of 6
The mother prior to this picture had caught and shared two salmon with her cubs. The large female in this photo had caught her first fish when the mother came over and took it away…
A Grizzly story in Six parts 1 of 6
Our lodge, after August 24th, uses viewing platforms on Knight Inlet’s Glendale River. On this day in mid-September a mother with two cubs were “sharing” a prime fishing area with two other grizzly bears. The mother was an aggressive bear but the cubs tended to stay back in a nook in the bank unless a salmon had been caught…
Black Bear mother and cub
Although all species of bears, including black and grizzly bears, are technically of the order Carnivora, they are essentially omnivores that eat plants, insects, fish, and animals. On this day we watched this mother and cub for more than thirty minutes as they moved along the beach turning over rocks in search of food that is high in protein and is made up of crab, clams, barnacles, amphipods and other tiny invertebrates. These two also ate some seaweed and finished off their search in a patch of salal berries. It was a learning time for the cub as it followed mother and copied her every action.
Grizzly Bears Cubs work
Grizzly bear watching prior to August 25th is along the shore of Knight Inlet, the Glendale River estuary and in the Glendale River. On these tours your are at eye level with the bears as they forage on the beach often with first year cubs. These cubs are may be only five months old and are much smaller than those in the previous day’s posting. But even at that age the cubs learn by copying their mother. This is an early season photo as you can see the fur that was rubbed of in the den has not had time to regrow.
Grizzly Bears Cubs wait
