5-27-18 Change Was In the Air This Morning

Sunday, May 27th
...open the door to hear gulls - yes, sea gulls - a sound that has been pretty much void around here for the last month...
...then I see 10 gulls...not much but when there have only been none, one, or two...well then 10 is alot...
...I heard a pileated wood pecker and it took a while to find where it was...

...still no word on the Residents...but it at least it gave me a bit of hope just hearing those gulls...
...there have been Transients and humpbacks in the area...yesterday the T65As came down San Juan Channel...

...and today the T100s and the T124As, who were in the area yesterday, surprised a lot of people by appearing along the west side of the island in two different groups about a half-hour apart and in-between the two groups were two humpbacks...

...then just a short while ago, at 8:22pm there were two Transient calls on the Lime Kiln hydrophones...was only quick enough to get one of the calls recorded but that was it...it's been a long time since hearing any killer whale calls over the hydrophones...glad for this one! Oh, then another at 9:15 pm...

...coming back down Haro Strait, or others that had been in Puget Sound, or even others that we had no clue were even in the area?...another mystery for another day.