This gorgeous chunky black bear just spotted a delicious salmon. At this time of year, bears consume up to 20,000 calories per day. It is called hyperphagia. I can only hope to eat that much! 😆
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Tonight’s Sunset
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Egg Yolk Jellyfish haunting the Pacific Ocean near Vancouver Island.
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the rocks at Beacon Hill Park, Victoria BC
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Mrs. and Mr. Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) on an early morning stroll at a marsh.
Spotted during a recent photo tour. We heard their call first so we approached very slowly and quietly.
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This black bear stood in the middle of the river and focused on a spot where many salmon had gathered. The bear was keeping a close eye on their movement, waiting for the right moment to jump and catch one.
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My office earlier this week.
Laid-back sea otter.
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Guess who is eating ALL the berries?!
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#WildlifeWednesday This chunky black bear had only one thing in mind: eat salmon. Dozens of salmon were going up stream navigating their way around rocks in shallow waters when I took these photos. Do you think the bear caught a salmon?
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Pretty great collection of PNW bird calls by navarreswildshots. That Pine Siskin call is one I've been trying to figure out for a long time.
source: youtube.com/@navarreswildshots
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Wildlife photographer focused on bird sounds 🎶 My goal is to film 500 US bird species singing and as many mammal calls as possible.YouTube
Ascaphus truei (the coastal tailed frog) has become my favourite native frog. They're itty bitty, evolutionarily peculiar, and I love their streak of black on the face, the golden-bronze bit of their iris, the vertical slit pupils. Such cute little frogs.
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View from a private photo tour last week on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
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When someone steals your lunch...
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🪷 How to Overcome Emotional Challenges (Lecture 1/3)
BDG on YouTube: A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng
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Spot the grizzly bear!
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Killdeer patrolling the shore on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It takes its job seriously and can be very vocal about it.
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When someone is trying to steal your lunch.
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The otter day during a private photo tour, we saw several rafts of sea otters. Some otters were caring for their pups, others were grooming or sleeping. They all looked very relaxed.
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Last week, as the sun rose on the coast of Vancouver Island, we observed a black bear getting several salmon for breakfast. I have a good appetite in the morning too.
Photo taken during a private 5 day-photo tour.
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Baby Vancouver Island marmot exploring its surroundings probably for the first time. They are born in the burrow and spend their first weeks underground. This little one came out of the burrow while mum was out collecting grass to refresh the bedding. (Photos from my archives)
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Spot the elk!
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A baby Vancouver Island marmot greeting mum as she comes out of the burrow. Photo taken in the mountains on Vancouver Island a few years ago.
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Salmon eater.
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“The program has exceeded all our expectations,” said Loretta Holmes, a UNB member and senior resource technician with the band’s stewardship department.
“The owls, which we call sq̓əq̓axʷ, have responded better than we dared to hope ten years ago. And community interest and involvement has been strong since the start.”
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The Upper Nicola Band released 11 captive-born owls in spax̌mn — part of a decade-long effort to reinstate the tiny birds of prey whose populations have plummetedAaron Hemens, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Indiginews)
A Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) pretends to have a broken wing to lure potential predators away from its chicks. This diversion tactic is common.
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‘Remarkable’ compassion: Community rescues 3 otter pups entangled in fishing gear in Alert Bay cheknews.ca/remarkable-compass…
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The 68-year-old who lives on Cormorant Island just off the northern tip of Vancouver Island is being credited with saving a river otter pup’s life by giving it CPR in an act that he says was "automatic."Adam Chan (CHEK)
Kanadische Provinz British Columbia ruft wegen Waldbränden Notstand aus
Angefacht durch starke Winde haben sich im Westen Kanadas Waldbrände rasend schnell ausgebreitet. Die Provinz British Columbia rief daraufhin den Notstand aus. Teils mussten eingeschlossene Menschen aus der Luft gerettet werden.
A beautiful encounter last week while tracking a cougar. The deer was nervous. A cougar was spotted there two days prior to my first visit. It is only a matter of time before I see and photograph one. There has been a lot of sightings in different areas in my region recently.
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The salmon that got away.
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Fox Sparrow says ''tshak tshaaak tshuk tshak tshuk tshak tshaaaak tshuk tshak tshuuuuuuk'' 🎶
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Little suns to brighten your day or evening. Entire-leaved gumweed aka Oregon gumweed (Grindelia stricta), Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
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Sometimes a little bird will land on a branch close to you and give you enough time to set your camera for a few good photos. The encounter will be short but nice. Then you'll spend a very very long time in bird books and reliable websites to try to identify the little bugger, I mean the little bird.
This is a Hammond's flycatcher (Empidonax hammondii) photographed last week while tracking cougars.
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Kudos to Canadian bike advocates sharing helpful resources, in particular: Thanks to BC Cycling Coalition and Capital Bike for bike event parking / bike valet templates, etc. Updated links: Toolkit bcbikevalet.ca/contents
/ related report bccycling.ca/blog/bike-valets-…
Monterey County is among the many regions that have had bike valet parking bikemonterey.org/tips-for-tour… at some events, but not nearly enough. (It isn’t feasible that the most frequent valet provider for many years simply can’t do it all.) We’d love to see more people providing bike valet parking here—and chances are many of you have the same need in your region.
Save yourself some time; check out those resources from generous bike advocates in Canada!
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13. Bike Valet and Other Bicycle Parking—Including Etiquette and LawsFounder, Bicycling Monterey (Bicycling Monterey | Resources for Anywhere & Monterey County Biking Information Hub)
Laughing Falls, Little Yoho River
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I have seen Western Tanagers (Piranga ludoviciana) only a few times. They are camera shy and always moving. I managed to capture this one last week. The photo is cropped.
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Drove across the island to Ucluelet and Tofino yesterday... the drive is beautiful and the coast is stunning. It's a 2.5 hour drive, but I'd totally do it again to spend a whole day at Long Beach.
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Beautiful day at the Esquimalt Lagoon.
Absolutely gorgeous day here on the island. And it's finally clear enough to see the Olympic mountains!
It's the weekend, take it easy! ☺️
C'est le week-end, prenez ça cool ! 🏖️
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Silly California sea lions at the beach the other day.
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Vancouver Island marmots will soon come out of hibernation. Some colonies are located on ski hills so they close the ski resort for a few weeks in April.
This marmot is endemic to Vancouver Island. It's an endangered species that is making a remarquable recovery thanks to marmots.org
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Hundreds of sea lions gathered for the herring spawn on Vancouver Island this year. It attracted orcas, of course. Bald eagles, shorebirds, ducks and gulls enjoyed the feast as well.
All images and footage in this video were taken from the shore. I organize photo tours on land each year during the herring spawn if you're interested...
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At the end of winter schools of Pacific herring gather off the coast of Vancouver Island to spawn in shallow waters. This annual event attracts a lot of mamm...Catherine Babault (YouTube)
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''Mine! Mine! Mine!''
I took this photo during the recent herring spawn on Vancouver Island. One gull just caught a herring and, of course, the other gull tried to steal it. The sea was milky turquoise due to an active herring spawn at the time.
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Updating my website is part of my regular maintenance. This week I added new tours for 2028 and created new pages in my portfolio. One for Grizzly Bears: catherinebabault.com/grizzly-b…
and the other for Flora on Vancouver Island: catherinebabault.com/flora-on-…
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Grizzly bear and cubs spotted on Vancouver Island for first time in 2024Catherine Babault ~ Nature and Wildlife Photography
Adult and juvenile Trumpeter swans in a marsh on Vancouver Island. They winter in our region.
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