When humans, bears and ospreys gather to watch the same thing, you know that the kokanee are spawning again.
The objects of all the interest are spawning kokanee, the speckled, red and green, landlocked sockeye salmon that take over local creeks.
An osprey, which normally hunts over the Lake, now finds creeks of interest.
It soon flies off with lunch.
To the delight of those gathered to watch the spawning kokanee, a black bear worked its way up the channel travelling close to humans on the bank and under those on a footbridge. The bear had only one thing on its mind and offered hardly a sideways glance. Alas, when it did catch a kokanee, it was facing away, so there was no picture of that.
The bear dragged its prize up the bank and feasted.
It would seem that this bear’s mommy didn’t say it shouldn’t chew with its mouth open.
I love the eyes in the first bear image, “Do you really need to watch me?”
What a fantastic sequence of images, Alistair. Thank you. I was working on Babine Lake last week and watched an osprey carry off a sockeye that had come back to the lake shallows to spawn.
Thank you Alistair for your fabulous images of the outdoors that most of us only imagine.
Patricia