News Items tag as: Okanagan wildlife

iN VIDEO: Bobcat makes appearance at Penticton home
August 12, 2025 - 7:00 PM

Sine Newbold was sitting out by her fire pit at her home in Penticton recently when a bobcat came around the corner of her house.
iN PHOTOS: Teddy bear picnics in Okanagan, Kamloops
August 08, 2025 - 4:00 AM

Black bears are living all around us in the Okanagan and Kamloops whether in the wild or urban spaces.
iN VIDEO: Hordes of threatened western toadlets migrate in Thompson-Okanagan
August 05, 2025 - 4:00 AM

Kelowna resident Chris Klugh was careful where to step when walking through hordes of tiny western toadlets at a lake in West Kelowna last week.
Fascinating slug mating process photographed in North Okanagan
July 29, 2025 - 4:00 AM

Enderby farmer Marilyn Anions saw something unusual while out walking her dog early in the morning this summer, and rushed back to her house to get a camera.
iN PHOTOS: Uncommon wading birds observed on Kamloops pond
July 25, 2025 - 4:00 AM

American avocets are not the most common wading birds to spot in BC, but several were feeding at a saline pond in the Kamloops area last weekend.
iN VIDEO: Mother duck in Shuswap takes boatload of babies for a swim
July 15, 2025 - 4:00 AM

A merganser mother duck was seen hopping off a dock and going for a swim with an enormous number of babies following behind her in Tappen Bay in the Shuswap a few days ago.
Giant snake hops onto boat platform in Kalamalka Lake
July 14, 2025 - 6:30 PM

Lake Country resident Austin Hawthorne was out on his boat in Kalamalka Lake a few days ago when he saw something unusual swimming in the water.
iN PHOTOS: Critters get wet and wild in Kamloops, Okanagan
June 27, 2025 - 4:00 AM

Wildlife photographer Curtis Zutz saw something he hasn’t seen before while sitting on his property in Oliver earlier this month. A yellow-bellied marmot went swimming across his pond.
iN VIDEO: South Okanagan camper has close encounter with flying squirrel family
June 17, 2025 - 4:00 AM

Oliver resident Donna-Lee Arnold was camping at nearby Sawmill Lake earlier this month when she had an interaction with a baby flying squirrel and its mother, a species the nature lover had never seen before.
iN VIDEO: Disgruntled heron squawks at kayaker in South Okanagan
June 14, 2025 - 4:00 AM

A blue heron at Yellow Lake near Penticton appeared to be frustrated with a local videographer floating by on a kayak earlier this week.
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