T & L Adventures

Sunday, August 28, 2016

8-4-16: Seymour Canal and Windfall Harbor

Mushrooms growing bear scat

Note all the plant matter this bear has been eating

Salmon heading upstream to spawn and die

Many fall prey to bears, eagles and ravens and more

When there are plenty of salmon and the bears aren't real hungry, they will usually just eat the skin, brains and roe for the high fat content.

What a set of teeth on the salmon

Devil's Club

Geranium

Mint Family

Monkey Flower

Common Murre

These birds can and will fly 120 miles or so from the nest to find food for their chicks, and may dive as deep as 60' for food.

Such a beautiful area

Sitka Black-tailed Deer

These deer are the most pursued big game species in Southeast Alaska. In the 20 year span between 1987 and 2007 the average annual harvest was over 12,300 deer.

The diameter of this starfish is 18 inches

Bonaparte's Gull in breeding plumage (black head feathers)

Bonaparte's Gull in non-breeding plumage

Bar Sign

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Next door Pups @ 5 weeks old

Two of the adult dogs next door

Suppertime!

Scratch that itch!

The pups love Linda

The pups love Lindsay too

Shoelace time

Nap time

Signs to make you smile

At a car dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment."

Today's Quote

8-3-16: Endicott Arm again/Dawes Glacier again/Seymour Canal again

This area we had visited the prior week on Trip #1 and it was very interesting how things had changed in that short period of time.

Rock face that looks like a sinister cat???

Lindsay's "squirrel" ice

Black Bear eating berries

Bald Eagles wet in the rain

Have a gull

Glaucous-winged Gulls

Harbor Seal

Forehead is scuffed up from a tangle with something

Have a Surf Scoter

Each black spot is a scoter

Male Surf Scoter

Male and Female

As mentioned in a previous post, many of the birds are molting and can't fly so the essentially fly along the surface of the water if they need to move.