Month / October 2024

by kritterspaw

Best of Grizzlies

I took my fair share of photographs on our recent trip to Canada. The hardest part is picking my favorites. You can see my posts here… https://kritterspaw.com/2024/10/20/grizzlies/ and https://kritterspix.com/2024/10/20/always-learning/

I wanted to choose a variety of different techniques and grizzly behaivor in my Best of:

Demonstrating ACTION

BEARSCAPE

ATMOSPHERE

and CUTE BABIES

I had a hard time deciding. Given the same task to 10 people, I would probably get 10 different answers. As it is, my husband and I don’t even agree on the best. You decide your favorite.

by kritterspaw

Grizzlies

We just returned from an amazing adventure north of Vancouver, where we spent a week among grizzly bears. It was great fun to observe their behaviors and personalities.

We saw WALKING BEARS

WADING BEARS

BOBBING BEARS

BABY BEARS

even DANCING BEARS

and BEACHED BEAR

and FISHING BEARS

The Chinook salmon that are born in the freshwater Chilko Lake, leave when they are small fry, not much more than 6″ long for broader horizons, as they swim downstream and into the ocean. They travel as far as Alaska over the next 2 years before making a loop and heading back to Chilko Lake where they spawn, laying their eggs.

The grizzlies come down off the mountain and fill up for the winter prior to hibernation, while the salmon come to lay their eggs and die. Many of the salmon are already dead and the bear walk around the lake on two feet to feel around for fish and spend the day getting their fill.

Mom teaches her COY (Cubs Of the Year) to fish and swim across the lake.

We got to know some of their habits, and had fun just watching their individual characteristics. After fishing for salmon their would shake their head and and rip off the salmon skin like it was a delicacy.

It was a tiring week, mentally and physically.

For more grizzly photos check out my post here … https://kritterspix.com/2024/10/20/always-learning/