Photo of the day - September 14

On a recent trip to Barter Island the village of Kaktovik ( East of Prudhoe Bay on the Beaufort Sea) the photographer captured this image of a Polar Bear while it was spending time eating off the remains of two recent whale kill carcasses. Photographer spotted this bear from the air while flying into the village then was able to get a village resident to accompany him out to the site where the bear was feeding. Copyright by Dwight Phillips