NAME GAME

I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to submit a name for Romeo and Juliette’s newest family member first of all! So many of you sent in your suggestions and I certainly appreciate the great effort!

Some were very creative names as well! I was originally thinking along the lines of keeping the name Shakespearian. I threw out a few names myself and a good friend reminded me that one of them I had already used years ago………..Horatio.

So I rejected that and decided to stay out of the arena to be unbiased.

I’d like to list all of the great suggestions first of all………..

Geri Peterson “Toupee”

Pure Glory “Ace”

Audrey Driscoll “Julius,Hamlet or Merlin”

Emma Cownie “Tybalt”

Chris “Dawkins”

Beth “Benvolio”

Noelle “Orlando”

Terri Webster “Escalus”

Freiedenkin “Macchiavelli”

Jacquie Biggar “Jasper”

Babsje “Max”

Greg “Falstaff”

Linda Schaub “Bandit”

Hedy “Swooper”

Michael “Frank Walter”

Cathy “Mercutio or Tybalt”

So we have 19 names to choose from. I narrowed it down to three names,Ace,Max and Bandit.

I liked Max but remembered I’ve named a few bears Max and want this name to be a new one. I liked Bandit because that’s exactly the way he was behaving,but I wouldn’t want him to regret his youthful indulgence when he’s older. So I think “ACE” is the winner in my books. I like the simplicity of a single syllable and I have never used that name before……………I think?

So, because you all chose such great names, I have decided to send you all a picture of Ace and thank you for participating in the very first Name Game!

I envision the next Name Game being for a Bear cub!

Thank you to everyone who sent in a name!

THE DAREDEVIL

This is the molting season for eagles,actually most birds as it’s the hottest. Check out his tail feathers?

I noticed on the Satellite feed smoke moving up from Washington State forest fires. I knew the sunset would be great,so I headed out for a sunset shoot. Couldn’t find anybody around except my Eagle friends. Heat makes all animals lazy……including humans!

ROMEO ARRIVING

NAME GAME

I was pleasantly surprised to see Romeo and Juliette’s latest offspring! It’s hard to tell but I suspect it’s male? He flew over and promptly took the fish Romeo was eating! Romeo didn’t seem to mind.

So the game is whoever comes up with the best name for this male eagle will get a picture of him!

FIRE EAGLE

Romeo came along just as the “Go Getter” tug was passing by. You can see the leading edge of the barge in behind.

The forest fires in Washington State produced enough smoke that the sun went pinkish orange.

FIRE SUN

This is the moment I was waiting for (with Romeo)……….but a interloping eagle from a northern territory decided to invade and trespass! Which made both Romeo and Juliette take off in hot pursuit to intercept!

Eagles guard their territories to the death! I’ve seen this eagle flying into Romeo/Juliette’s territory many times. I suspect Eagles are constantly testing neighbouring boundaries? One day, there may not be any eagles to intercept …… and they now own the territory!

I saw Juliette coming back but not Romeo. He probably perched in a tree close by to the interloper and just stared at him. At any rate, just when I wanted Romeo to be around he was busy elsewhere taking care of business.

The camera didn’t record the light colour accurately. The true colour can be seen in the waters reflection. It was a pinkish orange.

STAND UP

I ran into a friend who drives Bear Watching boats the other day. He was in a hurry as he had a boat load waiting for him so I couldn’t chat too much. He’s out there far more than I am,so has a good idea of whats going on. So I quickly asked him how this years cub count was? He told me he hadn’t seen a single one!

I found that alarming! I suspect I know why? The last two years we’ve had poor salmon returns. When the female doesn’t get enough protein she will not get pregnant. It’s Natures way of controlling the numbers. Last thing you want to do is have more mouths to feed when the cupboards are bare!

Why are there fewer salmon…………us. Far too many salmon are being harvested out in the ocean. They don’t get a chance to return. It’s that simple.

So because we are raping the oceans the effects of that action trickle down. One of the effects is that fewer cubs are being born this year (and last).

Having said that I ran into another friend a few days later and without me asking she told me she saw a Sow with two cubs playing on her property down by the water! The cubs were smaller than normal but I suspect that was because of the mother being smaller than normal. Probably her first cubs?

Another effect of fewer salmon is that the Southern resident Orca’s are starving! A beloved Orca K-21 (Cappuccino) has gone missing and is suspected to of passed. Now having said that his death is suspected to be more old age than loss of salmon. There are very few Southern Residents to begin with. (74)

What’s happened to K21 “Cappuccino”?