Which chook species do you suppose is the largest attraction to guests to your lodge (please identify just one species)?
Arctic Tern
American Pelican
What’s the identify of your lodge, and since when has your lodge been working?
Eagle Bear Lodge, began in 2017
How greatest to journey to your lodge?
By automobile or arrive at Williams Lake Airport (YWL) – we are able to prepare airport transfers ( 2 ½ hour drive from Williams Lake).
The lodge is situated on Eagle Lake, BC, Canada. Simply east of Tatla Lake. A brief flight from Vancouver to Williams Lake or Bella Coola. Positioned on HWY 20, east of Bella Coola and a couple of hours from Williams Lake, within the Chilcotin Area of British Columbia, Canada. The lodge is 4000 ft within the mountain vary and you’ll GoogleMap our lodge with the handle 5833 Jenkins Approach, Tatla Lake, British Columbia V0L 1V0 Canada
What sort of providers – apart from lodging and meals – does your lodge supply to visiting birders?
Guided excursions, pictures excursions, chook feeders, bird-watching station, hummingbird feeders.
Nice Horned Owl Chick
What makes your lodge particular?
- We’re the one lodge in British Columbia that provides nesting Arctic Terns on Eagle Lake
- We’re the one lodge working on Eagle Lake with unbelievable views of snow-peaked mountains all yr spherical and a number of other nesting birds. American Pelicans migrate and luxuriate in Eagle Lake often
- We’re the one lodge within the space specializing in chook watching and wildlife pictures excursions within the space.
- Now we have particular chook pictures perches arrange across the lodge and in-depth data of birds within the space and areas to see and {photograph} quite a lot of species.
- We provide chook workshops by boat the place you may see nesting Bald Eagles and occasionally, we additionally see Golden Eagles together with many different distinctive and attention-grabbing birds.
What are the ten – 20 most attention-grabbing birds your lodge affords good possibilities to see?
- Arctic Tern
- American Pelican.
- Frequent Loon
- Western Mountain Blue Chicken
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Bald Eagle
- Merganser
- Buffle Head Duck
- Golden Eye Duck
- Mallard Duck
- Inexperienced Winged Teal
- Night Grosbeak
- Western Tanager
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Clarks Nuthatch
- Robin
- Different Thrush
- Northern Flicker
- Purple Finch
- Downy Woodpecker
- Bushy Woodpecker
- Western Kestrel
- Coopers Hawk
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Hawk Owl
- Nice Gray Owl
- Noticed Whet Owl
- Sandhill Crane
Rufous Hummingbird
What’s the greatest time to go to your lodge, and why?
Mid-Could and early June, since we’ve got many birds round our lodge migrating
Is your lodge concerned in conservation efforts? If sure, please describe them.
Sure, we educated our friends on wildlife conservation and secure wildlife viewing practices since we additionally supply bear viewing and Canadian Lynx and different wildlife pictures excursions.
Northern Flicker
What different recommendations are you able to give to birders interested by visiting your lodge?
Now we have binoculars and BC chook books to lend to our friends. We suggest bringing a jacket, heat sweater, mountaineering boots, a solar hat, and sun shades since our temperatures change by 10-15 levels all through the day. Our lodge is at 4000 Toes within the mountains. Climbing boots are greatest for the reason that trails have uneven floor.
Do you’ve actions for non-birders? In that case, please describe.
Sure, mountaineering trails, mountain bikes, canoes, kayaks, sizzling tub, wooden burning sauna, darts. Yoga mats. Waterfall tour, and Aspect by Aspect Tour.
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is interested by staying at your lodge, how can they greatest contact you?
Electronic mail information@eaglebearlodge.com Tel: 0 1 .250.267.2807 BC Canada
Bluebird
Is there the rest you want to share with the readers of 10,000 Birds?
Eagle Bear Lodge is owned and operated by David Hemmings and Jennifer Hemmings. They determined to open a lodge in British Columbia the place they’ll spend extra time finding the most effective areas for grizzly bear viewing, bear pictures, chook pictures, and chook viewing.
David Hemmings is a famend chook and wildlife photographer whose work has been printed on the duvet of Nationwide Geographic, Canadian Geographic, and quite a few nature pictures publications together with Audubon Journal, On Feathered Wings, and Birding Necessities.