September 29th, just like last year on the same date, Hans, Grace and I visited the Don Park in Toronto where we looked for salmon swimming up the Don River. I don't remember getting a good picture of them.
This year, it was just Grace and myself spending a wonderful afternoon walking along the Don River and we were lucky to have seen quite a few salmon. not all were very clear and when they lift their tale and splash it back into the water, all you see are bobbles. I think this picture is clear enough to actually see the fish in the muddy water .
I googled a bit of information on Wikipedia for you to read, if you're so inclined.
Wikipedia:
The salmon run is the time when salmon, which have migrated from the ocean, swim to the upper reaches of rivers where they spawn on gravel beds. After spawning, all Pacific salmon and most Atlantic salmon[1] die, and the salmon life cycle starts over again. The annual run can be a major event for grizzly bears, bald eagles and sport fishermen. Most salmon species migrate during the fall (September through November).[2]
Most salmon mostly spend their early life in rivers or lakes, and then swim out to sea where they live their adult lives and gain most of their body mass. When they have matured, they return to the rivers to spawn. There are populations of some salmon species that spend their entire life in freshwater. Usually they return with uncanny precision to the natal river where they were born, and even to the very spawning ground of their birth. It is thought that, when they are in the ocean, they use magnetoreception to locate the general position of their natal river, and once close to the river, that they use their sense of smell to home in on the river entrance and even their natal spawning ground.
In northwest America, salmon is a keystone species, which means the impact they have on other life is greater than would be expected in relation to their biomass. The death of the salmon has important consequences, since it means significant nutrients in their carcasses, rich in nitrogen, sulfur, carbon and phosphorus, are transferred from the ocean to terrestrial wildlife such as bears and riparian woodlands adjacent to the rivers. This has knock-on effects not only for the next generation of salmon, but to every species living in the riparian zones the salmon reach.[3] The nutrients can also be washed downstream into estuaries where they accumulate and provide much support for estuarine breeding birds.
( See those often on Nat. Geo. movies on T.V. Often catch, and eaten, by bears.)