Glacier Bay NP: July 18

This Male Brown Bear waded into the river, submerged his head and started blowing bubbles.

A majestic scenery behind this coastal bear.

After finishing his morning toilette he proceeded to enter and cross the stream.

Then he proceeded in a non-challanted manor sauntering slowly by our group essentially paying us no attention at all.

He was a very healthy-looking bear, especially since he had not been out of hibernation long and the berries aren’t ripe yet and the salmon haven’t returned yet to spawn so his diet consists of whatever he can catch to eat.  Some 80% of heir diet consists of plant material.

Feeding along the intertidal zone at low tide looking for crabs, clams,and other invertebrates.

This young bear was having a salad lunch on sedge grasses.

Running after fish

Truisms

SE Alaska: July 2018

Harlequin Ducks

Marbled Murrelet

Tufted Puffin

Acrobatic Steller Sea Lions 

Lots of tester one among these young males

The dominant bull is showing battle scars obtained in fights with other males as he tries to maintain control over his harem.

The fog comes in on BIG cat’s feet dominating the low horizon.

Breaching sequence: Humpback Whale near Hoonah, AK

Alaska here we come!: 7-1-18

Brown Bear with her cubs

Bald Eagle (Alaska has more eagles than the lower 48 combined (~70,000!))

Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau

Humpback Whale

Orcas, aka Killer Whales

Indian Paintbrush

Mountain Goat kids

Mama Mountain Goat

Harbor Porpoise with her calf

Steller Sea Lion

Quick retreat by a Steller Sea lion

Brown Bear foraging along the tide line

Sleeping Steller Sea Lion

Roseate Spoonbills on Bird Island, Coffee Pot Bayou: Easter Sunday morning

The plumage on the youngsters is paler, more subtle, than on the adults.

Incoming!