Since my last posting there was a long stretch of quiet for seeing the Southern Residents. That all changed when they returned on May 30, in the dark of night and lucky for us, with lots of chatter in range of the Lime Kiln hydrophones.
That changed quickly, when the next day after they had gone north the prior night, were already coming back down toward Haro Strait and hopefully they would come through Haro Strait and WOW!...they did! All afternoon on May 31, the whales did what is called 'the westside shuffle' spending the day going down island, up island, down island again and then late in the day up island. Had you been listening to the Lime Kiln hydrophones you would not have heard them at all and might have thought they stayed off the lower end of the island. Oh, but they didn't!
Glad for the web cam The Whale Museum Live Stream that streams constantly. At about 8pm J Pod came up island clearly seen via the cam. It was around 8pm. Not a peep of a sound from them - they were going north and they were resting - their form of sleep.
That's just the beginning of the next few days, which I will post later.
Here are a few images of that first day...
sometimes going up-island...
sometimes going down...
some were going after salmon...
and we have to check on the moms and the youngest...
...and Crescent J-58 gets a close-up. Just look at her dorsal fin and how it hooks...it's just like her granmother's, Shachi J-19.
Thanks for reading about part of this day. more to follow...
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