The Northern Resident Orca have arrived into the inside waters in numbers. The majority are staying at or above the top of Johnstone Strait, but we have been fortunate to have some continue to come down the strait and go into Nodales Channel. In the meantime, the Transient Bigg’s Killer Whales are still down near…
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Northern Resident Orca are running into Nodales and back to the West up Johnstone Strait while the Transient Bigg’s Killer Whales seem to be everywhere, including close to the Residents. Humpback Whales have been spotted again in Desolation Sound and slowly working their way up the straits. A few Pacific White Sided Dolphins have been…
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Transient Bigg’s and Northern Resident Orca passing each other in channels helps create a bit of confusion in sorting some the reports when they come in as ‘Orca’. We hope we have organized them correctly from piecing their travels together. There is also some excitement in the posibility that our Powell River baby A103, ‘Albion’…
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Another long report of Transient Bigg’s Killer Whales back in our area, Northern Resident Orca back into our inside waters in numbers, Humpback Whales joining us through Sea Fair in Powell River and moving North-West. Pacific White Sided Dolphins spending time harassing the Resident Orca and avoiding the Transient Bigg’s and a few Dall’s Porpoise.…
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Sea Fair 2014 – Fundraising Raffle Winners – Special Report Sea Fair 2014 was a great success. Our booth was busy handing out information and raising awareness of the Cetaceans we regularly see in our waters. Boating awareness and care around these beautiful animals was our focus. The delay in this posting is only due…
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Excitement over the Northern Resident Killer Whales finally coming back into our inside waters in numbers. The Transient Bigg’s Orca have all but disappeared somewhere. In this report, as promised there is some other information on the Orca with the damaged dorsal the Dept. of Fisheries had numbered U135. He is actually known as CA217…see…
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The Transient Bigg’s Orca are keeping a very low profile lately, but the word is that the Northern Resident Killer Whales known as the A5’s finally showed up around the Blackfish Sound area after having been seen a while ago much farther up the coast. The Humpback Whales are showing up with a couple travelling…
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Rare Transient Bigg’s Whales make an appearance in BC’s inside waters creating much excitement. This is only the second time they’ve been spotted in BC waters, and the first inside of Vancouver Island. There was also sadness to see that the big male had only half a dorsal fin from an apparent boat strike. We…
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Happy Canada Day to Everyone!Transient Bigg’s (meat eating) Orca in front of Powell River delayed this Sightings update by a number of hours. The T002C’s seem to love this area and have become our "Resident" Transients, a term I coined over a year ago indicating that they remain in this area and the surrounding inlets…
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Transient Bigg’s Orca have grouped up and have been putting on quite a show. Great photos below! The Pacific White Sided Dolphins, the acrobatic show-offs, have appeared in numbers up to 150 while Humpback Whale reports have been few. Dall’s Porpoise have been spotted in a large group of 50-100 animals and Harbour Porpoise are…
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Sneaky Transient Bigg’s Orca were popping up all over the place then disappeared, as did most of the animals during the windy Friday the 13th, but they all made a sudden reappearance today. Lone Humpback Whales were spotted as were a huge group of Harbour Porpoise and Pacific White Sided Dolphins. The Porpoise are of…
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Many Transient Bigg’s Orca reports; T87 and T60’s are staying in the central part Georgia Strait appearing to circumnavigate a number of islands. Southern Residents have been hanging around the San Juan Islands, their favourite spots. A few Humpback Whales have been transiting our areas with a few even going in the ‘wrong’ direction. ‘KC’…
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Very active few days with both Southern Resident Orca, Transient Bigg’s Killer Whales, Humpback Whales, Pacific White Sided Dolphins and both Dall’s and Harbour Porpoise showing up. Transient Bigg’s were seen in close proximity to both Dolphins and Humpbacks in Discovery Passage. Wonder if the Dolphins used the larger Humpbacks as shields…interesting. Susan MacKay &…
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End of May ALREADY?! The Transient Bigg’s Orca popped up and disappeared from the central Georgia Strait but some of the ones seen recently have snuck up the coast, or circumnavigated Vancouver Island, to show up at the top of Johnstone Strait with a few back in our area again. Some of these Orca Susan…
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