As we post our Sightings Update and Maps there are more reports of Transient Bigg’s Killer Whales by Campbell River including T087 who appears to have joined up with another six whales while another group is a bit farther along. We will post the reports and photos in our next update. There were rumours of…
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A Humpback Whale seems to have found some good food, presumably herring, to feed on in the Vancouver area still. Our volunteer Ivan was kayaking and managed a short video clip for us, while Kristy Wright managed to get video of the whale breaching. Once the big rumblings of earthquakes stopped, more whales and dolphins…
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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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