Today we got stuck in the middle of the grizzly bear action. Lenore chased the twins off her favorite grazing area. A big male came out; Lenore went to the male and they mated! (in August?!). The big male stood up when he realized we were watching, and ran off into the trees. Lenore ran after him....
She also mated in June, so will she have cubs from 2 different males, with different size and colours next spring? Impregnated female grizzlies have delayed implantation of the fertilized embryos. The embryos inplant in October if the female has enough fat layered on to get though the winter. There is a good fishing season coming up with 50,000 pinks in the river system, Lenore will get her share.
Despite the SE wind blowing us home , we had a great adventure.
BEARS:
3 good black bear sightings along the inlet.
BIRDS:
numerous bald eagles
rhinoceros auklets
marbled murrelets
great blue herons
MARINE MAMMALS:
harbour seals
harbour porpoise
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Grizzly bear viewing report from Tide Rip Grizzly Tours, Telegraph Cove, British Columbia.
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4 comments:
We over estiamted the number of pink salmon, only 15,000 returned to the system in 2008. But the spawning gravel was in good shape, and about 4,700,000 pink fry emerged in the spring of 2009. Hope for the future!
Howard
Tide Rip Tours
By mid Augst we are realizing how the poor salmon run of 2008 has decimated our bears. About 1/2 have died off!, we are only seeing 1/2 the grizzly bears of former years during the summer. As the bears regather for the salmon fishing this fall this picture may change.
Howard Tide Rip Tours
Lenore emerged with one cub of the year in 2009. Is this the result of less salmon? Would she have had more if there were more salmon in 2008? ... something to think about. Personally I am happy she had one and even happier that the last we saw of them in 2009 she still had her cub in September. Congrats Lenore!
So happy to hear about the new cub(s). I will come back (again) next year for another amazing trip!
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