(3rd post regarding our encounter with Capt. Hook and the T71s while out with Capt. Jim of Maya's Westside Charters...)
...my previous post showed that one of the whales of the T071s has notches on both flukes and is a female...so
today I went searching to find a dorsal fin that belonged to that whale...
...I came upon a pic of T071A lunging after the Steller...and realized her tail was partially uncovered from the water...
...drum roll please...NOTCHES ON BOTH SIDES!!!
...her saddle patch mark on the right side is an 'upside down J' - that was the piece I was looking for...that is T071A !!
...I came upon a pic of T071A lunging after the Steller...and realized her tail was partially uncovered from the water...
...drum roll please...NOTCHES ON BOTH SIDES!!!
...so now I knew there were two females - which would be T071 (mom) and T071A (with the 'upside down J'), and that meant the male was T071B (see prior post)...and the youngest one T71C I didn't get enough info on him/her...
...now I only had to match up the dorsal fins for each of these whales...
...with the info I now had, it didn't take long and the rest of the puzzle just fell into
place!
...I will probably never have an opportunity like this again with a small
group giving away so much information...it sure was an exercise in scrutinizing every image to find the pieces of the puzzle...
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