July 1 Grizzly Report

Today we saw…

BEARS:
6 grizzly bears! When we arrived at the cove, a female grizzly "Lenore" was quite close to the float, munching along the beach grass. Further along the beach a "Shaggy bear" was mowing down her share of sedge, ripping off the succulent tips, and keeping a wary eye on Lenore. We watched Shaggy until we realized that a couple of teenagers were at the river mouth, bears were everywhere! After a splendid lunch in the grandeur of Knight Inlet, a Mom with cub-of-the-year came out on the cedar tree point. This was the high light of the day, the little cub played with sticks, rolled on his (her?) back, ran along logs, chased Mom.

4 black bears. First we bumped into a medium sized black bear eating chitons at a very low tide. As we watched her flip rocks to find another orange-footed gumboot chiton, we realized she had one tiny cub! Then another cub came out of hiding from the overhanging forest! These cubs were born in February, very cute.
Later we stopped by a big male black bear who rolled beach logs and seaweed covered rocks. We counted about 4 more black bears on the way up inlet to the grizzly bears.

BIRDS:
numerous bald eagles
merganzers, chicks, adults
marbled murrelets
Caspian terns
Bonepart gulls

MARINE MAMMALS:
harbour seals, Dalh's porpoises,
harbour porpoise
dolphins. We slowed down for the dolphins, which surfed along in the stern waves.
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Grizzly bear viewing report from Tide Rip Grizzly Tours, Telegraph Cove, British Columbia.
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