There was still a lot of day left. They'll be back up island later.
I can only say that because I am posting this a few days later.
Showing posts with label J and K pods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J and K pods. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2022
Saturday, February 22, 2020
2-19-2020 J Pod and K Pod Vocalizaiing over Lime Kiln hydrophones
February 19, 2020
Listen and read the text on the clip.
Then...
...just use one of your senses - close your eyes - to be totally focused on what you are hearing.
Special moments these are.
Listen and read the text on the clip.
Then...
...just use one of your senses - close your eyes - to be totally focused on what you are hearing.
Special moments these are.
Friday, November 25, 2016
11-25-16 A Day Full of Orcas
Friday, November 25th
...a break in the storms today, so off to the lighthouse on what was finally a non-windy, non-rainy day...
...get there, set up, turn on the hydrophones and within a few minutes there were sounds coming over the hydrophones...but they were masked by ship noise and they were also very distant...finally a clear J Pod call...a while later a louder, clear K Pod call...
...and it was time to watch and wait...they were coming down from the north...very curious...had they come in and gone up undetected?...or had they circumnavigated Vancouver Island over the last nine days?
...the whales were spread for miles across Haro Strait and from the leaders to the trailers...
...the first whale passing Lime Kiln lighthouse at about 2:15 was Cali K-34...and not far behind him were some other members of his family group, the K13s...
...a few of the K12s - Tika K-33, with his prominent dorsal fin, and his mother, Sekiu K-22 were not far behind...
...none were close but the distant landscape was phenomenal...here's Comet K-38 with the Elwha Valley in the distance...
...Comet and his mother, Spock K-20 had been traveling down island together...then he moved offshore and she continued going down island...each ended up with some pretty spectacular backdrops...
...here's Spock...
...when the J16s came down they were the last group...Mike J-26 was foraging...a bit closer was his mother, Slick J-16, and little sister, Scarlet J-50,...another sister, Echo J-42, was in the vicinity but not surfacing with her mother and sister...after watching them for a few minutes Scarlet was no longer surfacing with mom and it got a bit curious as to where she was...
...Slick continued on traveling with no one else surfacing by her...then a few minutes later Echo J-42 and Scarlet J-50 were surfacing together!
...I love it...mom handed the 'baby' (she's almost 2 years old) off to Echo J-42, who, by the way, has always seemed to 'love the little ones'...
...when Mike began moving down island, his other sister, Alki J-36 and her offspring, Sonic J-52 were traveling in close proximity...Sonic was tight to his mother's side...
...being spread out as they were is an indicator of a lack of salmon and a need to search for salmon as they travel...
...one thing I have noted the last two times prior to when the whales showed up - today and in mid November when they came in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and went down into Puget Sound:
...the Center for Whale Research was on scene today so their encounter post will have all who were seen today...
...for all who saw J and K
pod whales on this November 25th day, consider yourself very
fortunate...it is not common to see the whales passing by along the west
side very often during this time of year...
...a break in the storms today, so off to the lighthouse on what was finally a non-windy, non-rainy day...
...get there, set up, turn on the hydrophones and within a few minutes there were sounds coming over the hydrophones...but they were masked by ship noise and they were also very distant...finally a clear J Pod call...a while later a louder, clear K Pod call...
...and it was time to watch and wait...they were coming down from the north...very curious...had they come in and gone up undetected?...or had they circumnavigated Vancouver Island over the last nine days?
...the whales were spread for miles across Haro Strait and from the leaders to the trailers...
...the first whale passing Lime Kiln lighthouse at about 2:15 was Cali K-34...and not far behind him were some other members of his family group, the K13s...
...a few of the K12s - Tika K-33, with his prominent dorsal fin, and his mother, Sekiu K-22 were not far behind...
...none were close but the distant landscape was phenomenal...here's Comet K-38 with the Elwha Valley in the distance...
...here's Spock...
...Slick continued on traveling with no one else surfacing by her...then a few minutes later Echo J-42 and Scarlet J-50 were surfacing together!
...I love it...mom handed the 'baby' (she's almost 2 years old) off to Echo J-42, who, by the way, has always seemed to 'love the little ones'...
...when Mike began moving down island, his other sister, Alki J-36 and her offspring, Sonic J-52 were traveling in close proximity...Sonic was tight to his mother's side...
...being spread out as they were is an indicator of a lack of salmon and a need to search for salmon as they travel...
...one thing I have noted the last two times prior to when the whales showed up - today and in mid November when they came in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and went down into Puget Sound:
Thursday, August 18, 2016
8-18-16 Whales and a Heat Hazey Day
Thursday, August 18th
...the story in the images today...
...the whales stayed down island for quite a while and I heard reports of them foraging...more salmon in here?...that would be nice if that was the case...
...save the wild salmon and that will help save these whales.
...the story in the images today...
...save the wild salmon and that will help save these whales.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
12-5-15 FOUR Hours Over the Hydrophones!
Saturday - 00:04 - in the middle of the night...
...after having learned they were going west Friday afternoon...to be awakened by J pod calls and then K pod calls over the Lime Kiln hydrophones...the calls increasing in volume "they're coming up!"...well, that's music to my ears...
...then after a short while they started coming over the Orca Sound hydrophones and it sounded like they were continuing up Haro Strait...but I am still hearing J pod clearly over Lime Kiln...
...it is stormy, so instead of ship noise it is ocean noise...
...the whales are very faint over Orca Sound hydrophones (00:57 a.m.) and a bit louder over Lime Kiln...
...at this time of year, these are the encounters that are more common, especially with the stormy seas...
...oh, they are getting louder over Lime Kiln now...
~~~
...on Dec 2nd in the middle of the night I heard about 10 seconds of Transient calls over Lime Kiln...
...then on Dec 3rd at 9:30 pm I heard J pod calls over Lime Kiln, in the distance and could not tell a direction...then on Dec 4th in the afternoon, word came that J, K and L pod whales were in the vicinity of Race Rocks heading west...
..."okay, now I know where they were, it's back to dealing with the firewood,"
~~~
...so when they woke me up just a bit ago...well that was very unexpected...
...and now, 1:01...I can still hear J pod calls, they aren't as loud as they had been over Lime Kiln, but I'm not hearing any over Orca Sound (4 miles to the north)...
...hummm...did they change their direction and go down island?...they might have come around Discovery and headed up a bit and across and that's why they were heard only briefly and very faint over Orca Sound...
...now nothing over Orca Sound hydrophones and surprisingly a ship coming into range over Lime Kiln...I guess they are getting through before the really nasty day that's coming, or so the weather lady said...
...I still heard J pod, but much fainter over Lime Kiln until about 1:08...and nothing since then over either set of hydrophones...
...it makes me wonder about the previous time they had come back toward the island but it was not ever confirmed as to where they had gone and J pod was not seen until 10 days later...the day they were seen in San Juan Channel then Spieden Channel and some down past Lime Kiln...
...okay, now back to the present: ...it's now 1:32a.m. and that ship is really loud - it's passing Lime Kiln now...I can see its lights...LOL!...yep, that's the ship...
...2:05 a.m. no telling which way the whales went..."good night"...
...NO WAIT ! - 2:20 a.m. they are on Orca Sound hydrophones now! and clearly!!...also on Lime Kiln but they are definitely going UP now!...and another ship...and the wind is starting...it's supposed to be a nasty day...
...and louder and on and on...it's almost 3:00 a.m. and I can't think of a better way to spend the middle of the night than listening to the whales...
...3:37 and I'm hearing them again on Orca Sound - louder and closer too - coming back down?...maybe?...well just a few it seemed...
...then by 3:58 a.m. the last of them drifted off the Orca Sound hydrophones...
...I'd say they went north! ...and now it's good night...
...it's later now...11:26 a.m. and it is very nasty out there...here's my version:
...stay out of the way of falling tree branches too!
...after having learned they were going west Friday afternoon...to be awakened by J pod calls and then K pod calls over the Lime Kiln hydrophones...the calls increasing in volume "they're coming up!"...well, that's music to my ears...
...then after a short while they started coming over the Orca Sound hydrophones and it sounded like they were continuing up Haro Strait...but I am still hearing J pod clearly over Lime Kiln...
...the whales are very faint over Orca Sound hydrophones (00:57 a.m.) and a bit louder over Lime Kiln...
...at this time of year, these are the encounters that are more common, especially with the stormy seas...
...oh, they are getting louder over Lime Kiln now...
~~~
...on Dec 2nd in the middle of the night I heard about 10 seconds of Transient calls over Lime Kiln...
...then on Dec 3rd at 9:30 pm I heard J pod calls over Lime Kiln, in the distance and could not tell a direction...then on Dec 4th in the afternoon, word came that J, K and L pod whales were in the vicinity of Race Rocks heading west...
..."okay, now I know where they were, it's back to dealing with the firewood,"
~~~
...so when they woke me up just a bit ago...well that was very unexpected...
...and now, 1:01...I can still hear J pod calls, they aren't as loud as they had been over Lime Kiln, but I'm not hearing any over Orca Sound (4 miles to the north)...
...hummm...did they change their direction and go down island?...they might have come around Discovery and headed up a bit and across and that's why they were heard only briefly and very faint over Orca Sound...
...now nothing over Orca Sound hydrophones and surprisingly a ship coming into range over Lime Kiln...I guess they are getting through before the really nasty day that's coming, or so the weather lady said...
...I still heard J pod, but much fainter over Lime Kiln until about 1:08...and nothing since then over either set of hydrophones...
...it makes me wonder about the previous time they had come back toward the island but it was not ever confirmed as to where they had gone and J pod was not seen until 10 days later...the day they were seen in San Juan Channel then Spieden Channel and some down past Lime Kiln...
...okay, now back to the present: ...it's now 1:32a.m. and that ship is really loud - it's passing Lime Kiln now...I can see its lights...LOL!...yep, that's the ship...
...2:05 a.m. no telling which way the whales went..."good night"...
...NO WAIT ! - 2:20 a.m. they are on Orca Sound hydrophones now! and clearly!!...also on Lime Kiln but they are definitely going UP now!...and another ship...and the wind is starting...it's supposed to be a nasty day...
...3:37 and I'm hearing them again on Orca Sound - louder and closer too - coming back down?...maybe?...well just a few it seemed...
...then by 3:58 a.m. the last of them drifted off the Orca Sound hydrophones...
...I'd say they went north! ...and now it's good night...
...it's later now...11:26 a.m. and it is very nasty out there...here's my version:
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