Click picture for BC Wildlife Watch 

photo: Janne Perrin October 2008

Other Wildlife in Harrison Hot Springs

October 14, 2001 on the way to Hick's Lake at 10:30 p.m.

Short-tailed Weasel

(also seen winter 2008 under bird feeder in back yard)

2 sets Mule Deer with twin fawns 

January 1, 2001 at the outflow of the Miami River into Harrison Lake at 3:30 p.m.

eating a fish, snorting at a dog, hiding in the culvert and playing again once the dog departed

December 15, 2009 on the ice eating fish and sliding in the same area as above.

Northern River Otter      Click otter for Canadian Wildlife Federation

December 15, 2002 in the Miami River behind our home

One Northern River Otter was surprised to be interrupted at its play.  It stopped rolling a small branch to snort , dive then surface to snort at us again before disappearing amongst the vegetation at the edge of the river.

August 17, 2005 at 4:15 p.m.  

A family of five Northern River Otters swam up the Miami River behind the house.  We were alerted to their presence by the loud alarm calls one of them constantly made as it surveyed the banks for danger. 

November 22, 2002 deposited on front verandah at 9:00 p.m.

by Marmalade, the cat       One Trowbridge's Shrew                         

           click on picture for Shrew info

On December 6, 2002, Marmalade deposited a second Trowbridge's on the mat.  Must be a lot of them!

 At 6:15 a.m. one May 2003 morning 

a Cinnamon-coloured Black Bear yearling Cub visits the bird feeder.  He carefully licked all the seeds from the tube feeders, attempted to pull down the hopper and to climb the mature Big-leaved Maple before leaving via the river exit at 7 a.m.  

At 7:01 a.m. one October 2009 morning 

A two-year old, thrice tagged (take a close look at the left ear) black bear enjoyed a feast of bird seed then slept in the Western Red Cedar tree (unknown to me - I thought it had gone) until 2:00 p.m.  It was a shock when I looked up on my way to feed the Mallards to see bruin yawning and stretching.  I retreated and when I returned from my walk at 4 p.m., it had departed.  To credit the Conservation Service, the first question to my report was, "Is it doing anything dangerous?"  I said, "Not unless yawning and stretching is!" The CO came by around 5 p.m. to say the bear was working its way upriver.  In December the local guiding service's  Christmas Tree featured an ornament with a photo of same tagged bruin swimming in Harrison Lake.  This bear gets around!

Other mammals observed 1992 to 2010 in Harrison Hot Springs Village 

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