Hello everyone, what a great day we had today! This morning we ran offshore towards the Bank and we found a large finback whale, a new individual for this season! We got some great looks and on our way back in we passed another fin whale.
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Large finback we found off South Wolf |
On our afternoon trip we spent some time with a finback whale close to Whitehorse but there was a lot of boat traffic so we decided to venture a little further out and we noticed some large splashes towards Eastern Wold so we made our way over and found a fin whale lunge feeding! We spent around 45 minutes with this whale and he would lunge feed, breath a few times and pick up speed (we would see the fluke prints at the surface) and then he would lunge feed again. We must have seen 10-15 lunge feeds but with very few birds feeding in the area it was very difficult to predict where he would come up so I wasn’t able to get any great pics.
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First finback we stopped with |
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Lunge feed! You can see the extended ventral pleats |
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This was the lunger! |
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Another lunge |
Of course we stopped with seals and eagles on both trips as well!
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I am sure you can guess what he is doing |
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Greater shearwater |
Cheers,
Danielle