We saw a grizzly bear! It was eating berries and nibbling on the bark at the base of some mini silver birch trees at the side of the road (bow valley parkway). The ranger wasn’t happy about its proximity to the road and the idiot tourists so he shouted at it and it trombled a bit further away. He also shouted at the tourists to get back in their cars. He was polite but exasperated and lost sight of the bear while dealing with the people. He looked relieved when more rangers turned up to help.
We then saw a red napped sap sucker (which finally explains all the damage to trees we have seen) flitting about a rest stop off the same road. We tried to ID it at the time but ended up having to do an image search once we had WiFi again!
We then saw some big horned sheep by the side of the Trans Canada Highway. Both them and their horns are genuinely big. There are signs on the side of the road warning about them so presumably they hang about in approximately the same place most of the time.
We nearly saw some eagles (got told they were usually there!) and I did see a big raptor briefly but we were concentrating on the terrifying instructions for white water rafting so we didn’t get an ID. We did see lots of ravens in the same place though.
Many more chipmunks and ground squirrels obviously.