(Added: Photo by Robin Sinner)
Another day for whale-watching with umbrellas, rain hats, and binoculars – Kersti Muul reports that Southern Resident Killer Whales are headed northbound along west-facing West Seattle, Brace Point at last report.
Passing through the fauntleroy ferry lanes, Seattle side. 0955Likely just Jpod
Visible without binoculars from Constellation park nb just south of Blake island at 10:25am
Seems like two many males for just Js. So Js and Ks likely. Conditions making it difficult to see saddles
After viewing along Alki, noticing it was not a big group of whales and finally having time to look at my pictures it was just Kpod 😝
Was too wet to do some outside stuff I’ve wanted to do so I took the ferry to Bremerton and back twice, hoping to see these. No luck. Completely unrelated: I’ve been seeing Steller sea lions a lot lately on the channel marker buoys. Anybody been noticing?
Not a California sea lion. Saw one yesterday morning and he was obviously making noise and I was sad I couldn’t hear him because of the ferry sounds. They don’t bark like California sea lions but have more of a lower, roaring sound.
I saw one while doing field work last Friday. You are correct about at least one being a stellar.
Thank you for so graciously suggesting I might not be a complete idiot.
This is the image I originally had shared, of what is unmistakably a Steller sea lion on a channel marker buoy in Rich Passage on the way to Bremerton. How this other image came to replace it is puzzling.
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