It isn’t foggy this morning, but it looks like there’s a strong possibility it might rain. I was paddling toward the head of the harbour when I spotted a female Goldeneye with three of her young ones.

While I was pursuing the Goldeneyes, another duck that I’ve never seen before landed on the water nearby. It appeared to have a tiny green spot on the wing.  When I checked my Audubon Field Guide, it confirmed that it was a female Green-winged Teal.

The Teal didn’t hang around long enough for more than this one photo. As I was deciding which way I wanted to paddle, I noticed something dark on shore. I figured it was just a dark rock, until it moved. Turned out it was a young bear foraging for whatever he could find to eat.

He was headed for a beautiful waterfall that I’d never seen before.

He finally ran out of shoreline and headed up into the trees.

On the way back to the boat I spotted this Kingfisher sitting on tree branch that was floating on the water.

And this single Loon who looked like he’d suffered some injury to his beak.