Some of our past Reports of the sightings seen on our grizzly bear trips, including birds, marine and land mammals.
(recorded every 2 or 3rd day to give you an idea of our sighting rates over the spring and summer. Sighting rates are largely affected by the moon, tides, food source and berry crops}
Date Bears Marine mammals Birds
May 19 5 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
pacific white-side dophins terns, murres
May 23 8 grizzlies Dall’s porpoise bonepart gulls
3 black bears humpback? whale 23 bald eagles
May 26 10 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
2 black bears seals marbled murrelets
1 sea lion mew gulls
May 27 7 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
1 really big black bear Dall’s porpoises murres, bonepart gulls
May 29 10 grizzly bears seals 28 bald eagles
4 black bears Dall’s porpoises marbled murrelets
1 whale, type unknown 2 osprey
14 blue herons
May 31 5 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagle grabs fish
1 black bear dophins mergansers
June 1 11 grizzly bears Dophins riding bow wave bald eagles
2 black bears harbour porpoises marbled murrelets
June 3 6 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bonepart gulls
Mom with 2 cubs
June 5 7 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
1 black bear seals on rock marbled murrelets
humpback whale mergansers
June 10 7 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
Mom with 2 blond cubs seals mew gulls
3 subadults, 1 big boar Dall’s porpoises many blue herons
June 14 6 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagle feed by boat
6 black bears Dall’s porpoises blue herons
sea lion mergansers
rhinocerous auklets
June 16 5 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
Mom with 2 cubs nursing marbled murrlets
black bear with 3 2year cubs great blue herons
June 19 6 grizzly bears harbour porpoises 26 bald eagles
June 21 3 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
1 black bear Dall’s porpoises marbled murrelts
rhinocerous auklets
June 28 1 grizzly bear (Sergeant) 3 sea lions pigeon guillemots
1 black bear Dall’s porpoises eagles
June 30 3 black bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
Dolphins herons
July 1 1 grizzly bear Dall’s porpoises bald eagle feed by boat
seals on Negro Rock marbled murrelets
July 4 2 grizzly bears harbour porpoises bald eagles
black bear with 3 cubs! seals pigeon guillemots
blue hersons
July 7 1 black bear harbour porpoises bald eagles snatch fish
July 10 1 grizzly bear Dall’s porpoises eagles feeding by boat
harbour porpoises marbled murrelets
Dolphins bow riding pigeon guillemots
seals on rock murres, osprey
tree shallow feeds chicks
July 11 3 grizzly bears harbour porpoises eagles feeding on beach
1 black bear seals on Negro Rock murrelets (Indian nick name is
Dall’s porpoises “kiss-your-butts”)
osprey, kingfishers
merganzer with chicks
July 12 1 grizzly bear run to Glacier Bay rhinoceros auklets
harbour porpoises merganzers with chicks
Dall’s porpoises osprey fishing
bald eagles snatch fish
July 14 1 grizzly bear harbour porpoises marbled murrelets
3 black bears seals chasing salmon osprey fishing
2 deer bald eagle chases osprey
blue herons squawking
belted kingfishers
tree shallows
July 16 3 grizzly bears Dall’s porpoises
4 black bears seals on Negro Rock bald eagles
July 18 5 grizzly bears Dall’s porpoises bald eagles
2 black bears seals osprey fishing
mew gulls
rhinoceros auklets
marbled murrelets
common loons, terns
July 20 5 grizzly bears harbour seals immature & bald eagles
porpoises great blue herons
marbled murrelets
July 22 5 grizzly bears fishing Dall’s porpoises bald eagles
on the mud flats seals osprey fishing
kingfishers
July 26 5 grizzly bears, one fishing Heavy NW winds make departure difficult
July 28 2 grizzlies harbour porpoises eagles catch salmon
1 brown black bear seals great blue herons
1 black black bear Dall’s porpoises mergansers with chicks
July 30 7 grizzly bears fishing on flats bald eagles
larger new bear with rear leg limp kingfishers
teenager bears wrestle blue herons
Aug 2 8 grizzly bears harbour porpoises,
1 black bear Dalls porpoises harbour seals marbled murrelets
osprey
Aug 3 5 grizzly bears Dalls porpoises ( teenage grizzly fishing) harbour seals, merganser with chicks
(Mom with 2 cubs) Pacific white-sided dolphins rhinoceros auklets
1 black bear Harbour porpoise bald eagles
Aug 7 4 grizzly bears Dall’s porpoises bald eagles grabs a salmon,
4 black bears dolphins grizzly bears scares him off to
get fish
Aug 9 2 grizzly bears harbour porpoises merganzers
Aug 13 10 grizzly bears doing everything you can imagine, catching fish, wrestling, swimming by boat, digging rice root, eating sedge-grass while walking by, running from a helicopter, sleeping on a sandbar.
1 black bear eating plums
Aug 16 5 grizzly bears dolphins bald eagles
1 black bear from afar harbour porpoises phalaropes
harbour seals
In early July the elder berries, huckleberries, and salmon berries are ripe so most of the bears are feeding in the bush. Our sighting rate has dropped to 90%. Sometimes, no mom’s with cubs-of-the-year have shown up in Glendale Cove back in 2004! But on July 17 a sub adult grizzly pounced on a pink salmon in the estuary. These early pink salmon are returning to Klawade River, about 6 miles farther up the inlet from Glendale Cove. Some stray into nearby creeks and add to the genetic diversity. A small run of summer sockeye salmon are running into the Glendale system July 20. At the right height of the tide the grizzly bears are racing around the tidal rapids catching salmon. Great fun! On Aug 2 the Glendale pink salmon have arrived. More new bears are coming out of the bush. We had a glimpse of a Mom with 3 cubs-of-the-year! Aug 9, 10: Sightings have slowed down as the half moon tides do not drop enough to cause the bears to come out. New moon tides Aug 12 and on are bringing in more salmon and have excellent viewing for bears.