Big changes and new names for the Sounders gray whales

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

There are some new developments for the Sounders gray whales who return every spring to feed in the waters around Everett, Camano Island, and Whidbey Island. Cascadia Research and Orca Network have documented some surprising new developments with these whales as well as a way for the public to participate in naming a few of the “new” Sounders:

· This year has continued a trend of more whales joining this group and showing up earlier and staying longer than had been the case. The North Puget Sound gray whales, or Sounders, were first documented by Cascadia in the early 1990s when six different whales were identified who were coming back annually. In recent years the number of Sounders documented using this area has grown to 20.

· Some of these whales are not just feeding there in spring. One whale has been continuously in the area feeding for over a year and two others got an early jump arriving in our area to start feeding in December and early January when most whales were headed to the typical wintering grounds in Mexico.

· Those three whales who were here through the winter have already been joined by at least seven others to date with more expected in coming days to join the feast.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/big-changes-and-new-names-for-the-sounders-gray-whales/ar-AA19rZC0

[SonofDonald]

1. Outstanding!

I haven’t had a chance to see the whales in the Salish Sea yet and may not as I’m disabled now.

Back in 1981 I was crabbing for Opilio on the F/V North Pacific and we were off the south coast of St George Island (the Pribilofs) and was out on deck dumping old unused bait overboard and there was a gray whale about twenty five feet from the boat.

I was just slightly surprised and almost dropped the bin over the side, it’s not a normal thing to see a huge animal right next to you, I just stared at it until it sounded after about a minute.

They are special animals, I’ve even heard whale song at night out there, watched Dall Porpoises riding our bow wave all the time for a decade, Orcas as close as six feet away from my skiff.


Special animals.