Category Archives: mammals

  Hundreds of photographers have been working hard recently to bring images of athletic events to the world. However, one can also watch superb athletes oneself by looking outdoors. Here are two leaps seen yesterday.   A pika launches itself to … Continue reading →

  Haretage minuets: This posting offers insincere apologies to the Canadian series, Heritage Minutes. I know that snowshoe hares are out there, but I rarely see them. It turns out I have been looking in the wrong places. “I really … Continue reading →

  The bears keep coming. It is both the season and the year for it.  To my eye (and to my computer’s colour meter), this bear is blue. Black Bears certainly come in a delightful range of colours around here. … Continue reading →

  To the list of useful devices for good wildlife photography, I may have added one more: supply your subject with a (possibly hallucinogenic) mushroom. The Columbian Ground Squirrel is a skittish little beastie that is forever on guard and ready to vanish. … Continue reading →

  There seems to be a rather large number of Black Bears around the valley bottoms this year, both scrounging on the ground and in the trees. This is third posting showing a bear in a tree that I have … Continue reading →

  Black Bears were given their name on the East Coast where all are obligingly black. They are also uniformly black on the West Coast. But, around Kootenay Lake, Black Bears come in a delightful range of colours. Some, of course, … Continue reading →

  Surely my most unexpected observation of this year was made last evening when a Chipmunk crashed an outdoor dinner party. When I was a child, I would often see chipmunks at the valley bottom around the Lake. However, for … Continue reading →

  I have made many postings about marmots, but all recent ones treated the Yellow-bellied Marmot. This one is about the Hoary Marmot. Three species of marmot are found on the mainland of British Columbia — Yellow-bellied, Hoary, and Woodchuck — … Continue reading →