アラスカヒグマの親子

Mother bear and cubs of the brown bear in Alaska

晩秋のアラスカで、ヒグマの親子がお互いの体をぴったりくっつけて、しばらくの間、川面をじっと見つめていました。
産卵を終えて、下流にゆらゆらと流されてくるサケを待っているようです。

Mother and cub of the Brown bear
Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Oct 1999.

長い間、川面を見つめていた親子はサケが来ないと気づくと、茂みを通り抜け森へと帰って行きました。

Brown bear in Alaska of the late fall.
Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Oct 1999.

I encountered mother bear and cubs of the brown bear which stared at a surface of a river in Alaska of the late fall.

When those bears which had been staring at the surface of a river for a long time noticed that a salmon did not come, those bear went back to the forest through a bush.