Yes this is a “dead duck”, a common murre and we made sure we had a good photo. This was the proof of a murder and the guilty party was a transient killer whale. It was not a guess on my guest’s part as we saw a lone transient spend half an hour playing with and eventually killing four murres. I have seen this behaviour before but it was a small pod teaching their young the skill necessary to catch seals. Approach from beneath and throw it into the air but in this case it was an adult and not doing it for food.
Grizzly Bears share a secret
“Mom I’ve got a secret. There is somebody over there in a boat watching us.” The spring grizzly bear tours from our lodge on BC’s Knight Inlet are viewing bears on the beach. The salmon do not arrive until mid-august so the grizzly mothers and cubs spend their days eating sedge grass or in this case turning rocks on the beach looking for protein. This is the “cub time of the year” born in the winter they are only a few months old and stay close to mom.
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