Location: Whytecliff Park
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A Rare Encounter with Mating Harbour Porpoises – 05/19
Harbour Porpoise have a pretty wild sex life: They mate promiscuously, and the speed and energy involved in a mating attempt often results in fast aerial displays otherwise rarely observed in this species On a sunny day in the spring of 2019, our marine mammal observers were treated to an unexpected display of Harbour Porpoise…
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A Humpback Instead of Harbour Porpoises – 17/4/19
We went to watch for Harbour Porpoise at Whytecliff Park. The weather looked okay, and we had seen a lot of California Sea Lions the day before, so we figured there would be food and plenty of marine mammals. We saw this humpback before we had even made it to the observation point; and it…
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The T123’s in Howe Sound – 2/5/18
Aka how Killer Whales ruin everything…if you’re looking for Harbor Porpoises 😛 When you’ve spend a few hundred hours watching for marine mammals from land you get this feeling for something not being quite right, when something just seems off. Today was one of those days. Howe Sound off Whytecliff Park just felt a little bit too…
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A Surprise Humpback Encounter! – 11/5/18
When we set up camp on May 11, we thought we were in for yet another rather uneventful day in the field. We spent the entire day staring out at Howe Sound, looking for harbour porpoise. But the porpoises had other places to be that day, and for much of the morning, the most exciting…
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Winter/Spring 2017 at Whytecliff Park – 04/17
It’s been a fairly quiet start into 2017 for us. With lots of windy and rainy days in winter (it basically didn’t stop raining, interrupted only by some days of snow), there were few opportunities to look for porpoises. But the good news is that every time we did make it out to our study…