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  • A Lunge Feeding Humpback Whale! – 28/5/16

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    Got to see a lunge feeding humpback whale, that I don’t think I’ve seen before (ID’d as BCYuk2013#3 “Slits”) , on my first day out on the water with my new lens! Great Start!! This humpback, who I think may be a juvenile (wasn’t little but wasn’t huge, maybe a few years old) lunged so…

  • Tail-lobs from Domino -7/10/15

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    Domino (BCY0633) is so easy to identify as an individual with a very distinctive dorsal fin and an extremely distinctively marked fluke which inspired the nickname. Fall is definitely the season when Humpback hormones appear to lead to more energy going into socializing. We’ve been seeing more groups of 2 and 3 whales associating now…