Category Archives: fish

Season to change

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Alistair

  There have been feeding activities over the last few weeks which will soon vanish. After all, the season is changing with the result that ospreys are migrating and black bears are fattening up and will eventually hibernate. Vanishing are … Continue reading →

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Bingo

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Alistair

   

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Bear ate wasps

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Alistair

  This posting started just as yesterday’s did: watching black bears hunt and sometimes catching Kokanee in a stream. At the end, it took an unexpected and speculative turn. At first the lone black bear was really high in a … Continue reading →

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Bear eats Kokanee

Posted on August 28, 2024 by Alistair

  From late August until early November is the season to watch both black bears and grizzly bears go after Kokanee fish in local creeks, rivers, and lakes. The bears are fattening up in preparation for their long hibernation through … Continue reading →

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Heron & mallard

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Alistair

  This morning, a heron swallowed a baby mallard. Now, I have got to admit that the Great Blue Herons I have watched will eat just about anything they can swallow whole. And this is what it did to the … Continue reading →

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Grizzly & Kokanee

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Alistair

  A (female?) grizzly bear wandered by and began feeding on Kokanee salmon. Before wandering off, it had eaten perhaps a dozen Kokanee. A few days ago, I looked at black bears eating Kokanee. I think the grizzly bear was … Continue reading →

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A week late

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Alistair

  Late August is the time to start watching the Kokanee salmon run and all the results from it. Some of the results, the bears eating fish, has been diminished perhaps largely by the repaving on the road. This activity … Continue reading →

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Osprey & chick

Posted on July 30, 2023 by Alistair

  Yesterday, an osprey was sitting in a tree contemplating a headless fish. Not far away, but in a nest above the Lake, was his partner and their one chick. This male osprey had stopped by the tree to eat … Continue reading →

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Heron & fish

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Alistair

  The Great Blue Heron is a patient bird. Yesterday, it spent an hour on a dock ramp just watching for a fish before it caught a small meal. This seems to be an adult female heron. It has a … Continue reading →

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Dipper eats

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Alistair

  The Kokanee salmon have visited the creeks, spawned, and have died. The bears, the eagles, and the vultures have left after eating their fill of both live and dead fish. Now only some mergansers and mallards stay to consume … Continue reading →

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