A Creek in the Timber

The salmon run is over a month a way, but lots of deer and a few bears are visiting this spot. The deer will disappear when the salmon start running and bears will take over.

Trailcam video clips from a camera set by a stream in SE Alaska

Bears are taking over the creek from the deer again now that it's starting to fill with salmon.

Sitka blacktail deer in southeast Alaska using a trailcam

Trailcam video clips from a small salmon stream near Ketchikan Alaska

Video clips from a trailcam overlooking a small salmon stream in SE Alaska

The video starts with bears and eagles scavenging what's left of the salmon that spawned in this stream near Ketchikan Alaska, followed by rutting blacktail deer

Eagles and Bears fishing for salmon in SE Alaska

Trailcam video clips from a small salmon stream in near Ketchikan, Alaska

Video clips from a trailcam overlooking a salmon stream in S.E. Alaska during the peak of the pink salmon

Trailcam video clips from a camera overlooking a small salmon stream near Ketchikan Alaska during the peak of the pink salmon run.

The salmon run is at its peak, my favorite clip in this video is at the 3:45 mark when a playful raven tags an unsuspecting bear on the rump.

A few more salmon have made it up stream and bears and eagles are working hard to catch them

Trailcam video clips from a camera overlooking a small stream in S.E. Alaska

Black bear and bald eagles continue searching for the first salmon to enter this small stream near Ketchikan, Alaska but the run hasn't started yet.

Trailcam video clips from S.E. Alaska

Video clips from a trailcam overlooking a salmon stream in S.E. Alaska

Trailcam video clips from Ketchikan Alaska

Bears and eagles continue searching for the few early fish that have entered this creek, soon it will be full of salmon.

Hungry black bears start patrolling this creek after some heavy rain hoping to find the first salmon, deer abandon this trail until October after the salmon are all gone.

Video clips from a trailcam in SE Alaska

Video clips from a trailcam overlooking a stream in SE Alaska

The salmon run is over but black bear, and other scavengers are still cleaning up the scraps, deer (sitka blacktail) are starting to use this area again.

Sitka blacktail deer at a small salmon stream in SE Alaska in the beginning of Spring. The salmon start running in August.

Video clips from a trailcam overlooking a small salmon stream near Ketchikan, Alaska. Deer are looking pretty rough after a long winter, They've begun to shed their winter coats and 1 has shedded a lot and looks extra horrible without much of a summer coat underneath. Most shed their coats slowly and don't finish until June while others shed real quickly.