{"id":32524,"date":"2023-05-30T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32524"},"modified":"2023-05-30T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:35:20","slug":"grizzly-sow-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32524","title":{"rendered":"Grizzly sow &#038; cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have often seen Grizzly Bears at this time of year, so I keep my eyes open for them. Although grizzlies are omnivores, I have usually seen them eating plants.<\/p>\n<p>There were three Grizzly Bears: a sow and two cubs (probably in their second year). Photo by Cynthia Fraser.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32527\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/grizzly230529cs2ccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a delightful sighting, for not only were they close, they were feasting among wild flowers that looked like larkspur. Now larkspur is somewhat poisonous to humans, but I don&#8217;t know whether it is for grizzlies. Nevertheless, the bears were ignoring the flowers.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32526\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/grizzly230529bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rather, a clue to their activity was their long claws. They used them for digging for roots. Photo by Finn Grathwol.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32528\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/grizzly230529dsffg.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is one of the cubs digging in the ground. I have been told that they are after cow parsnips which apparently has nutritious roots until the plant sprouts. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32531\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/grizzly230529gsccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There seemed to be a rather large amount of scratching going on. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32525\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/grizzly230529as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the cubs. Photo by Finn.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32530\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/grizzly230529es2ffg.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another cub that was unreasonably close.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32529\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/grizzly230529fs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have often seen Grizzly Bears at this time of year, so I keep my eyes open for them. Although grizzlies are omnivores, I have usually seen them eating plants. There were three Grizzly Bears: a sow and two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32536,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32524\/revisions\/32536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}