Bear Trip #1 - May/June 2022 Report
All of us at Wild and Exposed would like to thank the participants in the first ever Wild and Exposed Photo and Video Bear workshop. From bears to whales and puffins too…there were incredible opportunities for Mike and the crew.
The coastal bears of Alaska were the stars of the show and each day provided clients with once in a lifetime moments to capture and memories that will undoubtedly live forever in the minds of those who took part. Clamming, sows and cubs on the sedge flats, giant males looking for mates, bears resting at river's edge and that always amazing Alaskan scenery and light marked this adventure as a can't miss for those who join us in the future.
Images By Thomas Hartzell
Images By Russ Defusco
Species Encountered:
Sea Otter
Steller's Sea Lion
Harbor Seal
Minke Whale
Humpback Whale
Orca
Brown Bear
Gray Wolf
Red Fox (tracks)
Moose (tracks)
Brant
Canada Goose
Northern Shoveler
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Pelagic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Common Loon
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Marbled Murrelet
Ancient Murrelet
Horned Puffin
Tufted Puffin
Northern Fulmar
Sooty Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
Parasitic Jaeger
Black-legged Kittiwake
Short-billed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Arctic Tern
Black Oystercatcher
Semipalmated Plover
Whimbrel
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Red-necked Phalarope
Spotted Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Sandhill Crane
Rock Pigeon
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Merlin
Tree Swallow
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Alder Flycatcher
Varied Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Black-capped Chickadee
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Orange-crowned Warbler
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Common Redpoll
Rusty Blackbird
A huge tanks to Russ Defusco for coming up with this species list. He is a world class birder and kept track while we were on the trip.
