Transient Bigg’s Orca, T075s and T002Cs have graced our waters again. T075s are not frequent visitors to this area of the Georgia Strait, but T002Cs were jokingly dubbed our `Resident` Transients in previous years from their staying in the Strait. A Humpback Whale has certainly made waves in the Vancouver area, while Pacific White Sided…
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Transient Bigg’s Orca, including probably T087, have been making short appearances interspersed with some other Killer Whales’ appearances. We have some more Humpback Whales popping out of the water and a few more Grey Whales creeping up the coast. Pacific White Sided Dolphins have been spotted bowriding a few boats, but are not staying in…
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Albino Grey and Humpback Whales. and even an Orca have once again been in the news. The best known is called Migaloo, the Humpback whale and the most recently confirmed is a Grey whale seen along the Baja peninsula. We too had one report a few issues back of a possible white whale in the…
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T087, a large male Transient Bigg’s Killer Whale has joined back up with the pod he most frequently had been seen with over the past few years, the T086A’s. There is however one missing female Orca from the pod; T086A1. Reports of other Bigg’s Orca on a Dall’s Porpoise hunt in the inlets has also…
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Transient Bigg’s Orca known as T087 who had been cruising the straits alone has joined up with a couple of other pods in which there is one female with an extremely large belly. We expect that there will be another new calf to report very soon. There have been a few other reports of Orca,…
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Many Humpback Whales have stayed in North Pacific this year with reports from even around Prince Rupert of bubble net lunge feeding still. Others are still in the Georgia Strait. It is possible the food was so late that instead of carrying on to their usual breeding grounds they have chosen to stay where the…
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Northern and Southern Resident Orca both made appearances in the upper Georgia Strait. It’s wonderful to know that the NRKWs known as the A42’s tend to make our waters their winter home. They had spent much of the Summer as far North as Alaska. In our previous report we had them listed as Unidentified, but…
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Southern Resident Orca are back into the upper Georgia Strait, which has become a regular winter trek for them. Humpback Whales are still milling about the area and we’ve included a special video clip of two of them visiting a boat on New Year’s Day. We’ve also included another special video clip of an amazing…
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Note to Safari browser users: Apple software upgrades this week are preventing images from displaying on this site. To resolve the problem, please clear your Safari browser cache. On a Mac this is in Safari preferences. On iPad and iPhones, use the Settings app, Safari, Clear History and Website Data. Another calf for J-Pod boosts the…
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Humpback Whales in December is not the usual set of circumstances. We’ve had the odd one over the past number of years that may have stayed due to a calf that couldn’t make the migration, or some other reason, but this year we are seeing a number of them. Are they staying or are they…
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Southern Resident Killer Whales from K-pod made one of their few Autumn forays into the upper Georgia Strait. They didn’t stay for long, but we can only hope they had a good feed. Transient Bigg’s Orca are being conspicuous by their absence, while we have a number of Humpback Whales still hanging around our inside…
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A few of the Northern Resident Killer Whales made an appearance at the top of Johnstone Strait. The remaining Orca sightings reports have been placed into the Unidentified category as we have not received confirmed ID’s. Some, we believe, were Southern Resident Orca, and most were Transient Bigg’s. Humpback Whales are still the majority of…
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Humpback Whales are the main focus for this week’s Sightings Update. A number of them appear to be staying in our coastal waters, at least a bit longer than usual. There are a few, presumably Transient Bigg’s Orca, but listed under the Unidentified Killer Whale section since we have no confirmed identifications. Otherwise, Southern Resident…
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We are thrilled to hear about yet another new calf for the Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales. And J53 is such a cutie too! Our report covers a number of days including the Southern Residents, Northern Resident Orca, Transient Bigg’s, Humpback Whales, Dolphins and Porpoise. NEW Sightings Report Form Susan MacKay, Whales and Dolphins BC Society…
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Many Transient Bigg’s Orca have been popping up. The Southern Resident Orca from K-pod and L-pod are making one of their few yearly visits to the top of Georgia Strait. Humpbacks and Grey Whales are still foraging back and forth. Dolphins and Porpoise seem to be spread out in different locations. With fewer boaters out…
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Grey Whales have been making the news by being right in Vancouver to feed close to the shore giving people a great show as they walk along the shores of Stanley Park and Kitsilano. We believe the one that was running between Gibsons and Sechelt in prior reports has joined up with the one by…
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Slightly delayed report due to much going on behind the scenes. Hopefully the problem we had with sending our previous report to our email subscribers has been resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience. There are many sightings of Humpback Whales. Some appear to be on the move a bit more now. Transient Bigg’s Killer Whales…
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Humpback Whales have certainly been of note over the past few months. The Northern Resident Killer Whales have spent a bit less time than usual, but more than last year. Our "Resident" Transient Bigg’s Orca, the pod known as the T02C’s, have been spending most of their time in the upper Georgia Strait, while others…
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Many photos and reports covering a larger area with whales showing up in places they haven’t been in for a long time. This could be from the search for food, or that the food sources are returning to areas as we clean up our coast. The pattern change does make for many more sightings of…
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Many of the Cetacean species have been running into one another as they forage, hunt and travel. With all the activity, it had become a bit confusing to tell whether the Killer Whales being seen were Northern Resident Orca or Transient Bigg’s, so you may find a number of the reports in the Unidentified section…
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Whales, Dolphins and Porpoise Everywhere! The Northern Resident Orca have decided to spend some time down and around the Northern Georgia Strait. This is a return to some older times when they used to frequent the area. With Transient Bigg’s Orca also relatively close by, it’s always interesting to see how they try to avoid…
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So much whale, dolphin and porpoise activity out there! It seems they are everywhere and more species than usual in our inside waters. The Northern Georgia Strait has been a hotspot for Humpback Whales and even a Minke Whale graced the area. Sechelt till has at least one Grey Whale who disappears when Transient Bigg’s…
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A large number of Northern Resident Killer Whales graced our inside waters into Nodales Channel where they met up with a large group of Pacific White Sided Dolphins. Some Transient Bigg’s were just outside the channel at the same time making the activity hard to follow. There is thought that some of the Bigg’s continued…
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Humpback Whales have been a major focus in our reports with so many in our inside waters. It’s wonderful to see so many different whales around. Grey Whales have also made a great resurgence back into our waterways. We have fewer Transient Bigg’s and other Killer Whales in the report, but they are still popping…
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With so much going on, we’ve managed to get behind with our long reports. There will be a couple of reports run back to back to get us updated. There is still plenty to read and see. Some excellent Dall’s Porpoise photos and the map is at the bottom of the report this time.Susan MacKay,…
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This is the second in our Catching Up on our Cetacean Sightings Reports covering everything we have between August 1 to August 6. There are two reports that we missed at time of publishing, we apologize for that. Every sightings report is valuable and appreciated. Rest assured that it will go into the data files…
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Whales have been everywhere. From Northern Resident Killer Whales, Humpbacks, our usual Transient Bigg’s Orca, to Grey Whales. Of course some of the smaller species reports are still coming in also; Pacific White Sided Dolphins, Dall’s Porpoise and some Harbour Porpoise in some larger groups. We’ve received a report of a Dolphin or Porpoise possibly…
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WOW! Northern Resident Killer Whales have returned in numbers from Alaska into Johnstone Strait. Our usual Transient Bigg’s Orca have been a bit aloof. More Humpback Whales are staying in the upper Georgia Strait than we’ve had in decades. A Grey Whale passed through the area heading up the coast and Pacific White Sided Dolphins…
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Transient Bigg’s have been hunting all throughout the inner waters from Haro Strait to Johnstone Strait. Our usual T002C family pod continue to spend much of their time cruising the channels in the upper Georgia Strait. The Southern Resident Orca pods have been in and out of the inside waters by Victoria and Vancouver not…
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We are pleased to announce and present this launch of our new and improved Sightings Report with Maps. The map will be included in every report showing the locations of the sightings in the report. If you wish to jump to one specific report location, you can click on the icon directly following that report…
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