This week's rain (mostly at night, thank God) triggered the 40 to 50,000 pink salmon holding in the crab-pot cove to rush up into the river system. We positioned the viewing skiffs up the north side channel, so as not to effect the bears fishing, and watched the awesome action. One, two, three grizzly bears charging around chasing fish, standing up to see where the fish are, and pouncing on a slippery, slithering salmon who doesn't want to be dinner. One guest reported he got a picture with 3 grizzly bears in front, 3 bald eagles, then 3 black-tail deer behind! A wolf was spotted sulking around the forest edge.
Our Sept rain has started early this year. But it is estential to allow the salmon to move well up the river, to clean and flush out the gravel. Salmon eggs need clean gravel fed with clear water. The Glendale River system has 2 lakes which sponge up the November deluges and holds back the flash floods, so the egg to fry survival rate is good.
The black bears are out eating salal berries on the inlet beaches, well up from the usual beach barnacles.
BIRDS:
numerous bald eagles waiting for fish scrapes. A bald eagle dived down to grab a salmon, but when he landed it on a gravel bar and started to rip it apart, and grizzly bear smelt dinner and chased off the eagle.
Surf scoters
marbled murrelets
belted kingfishers
MARINE MAMMALS:
harbour seals
harbour porpoise
dolphins
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Grizzly bear viewing report from Tide Rip Grizzly Tours, Telegraph Cove, British Columbia.
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