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.