T100s and T101s travel northbound in Haro Strait, April 21, 2008
T102 northbound in Haro Strait, April 21, 2008.
photo by Ken Balcomb.
photo by Dave Ellifrit.
T102 surfaces among the T100's and T101's travelling north in Haro Strait.
I first spotted them milling around a group of birds south west of Discovery Island (48.4 123.3) at 2:05 p.m. They looked like they were finishing off a kill. I left them heading north-west up Haro Strait near Beaumont Shoals at 2:50 p.m."
April 21, 2008
T100's and T101's
Platform: Orca
Begin Encounter: 5:00 p.m.
Start Lat: 48° 62.01 N
Start Long: 123° 24.43 W
End Encounter: 5:50 p.m.
End Lat: 48° 70.46 N
End Long: 123° 24.21 W
Observers: Ken Balcomb and Dave Ellifrit.
Staff of the Center for Whale research encountered and observed transients northbound in Haro Strait April 21, 2008. The adult male T102 was traveling with the T100's and T101's - eight whales in total. "After Mark Malleson's visit with them off Discovery Island, they travelled up Haro Strait and into the Canadian waters of Swanson Channel," said Ken Balcomb, director of the Center for Whale Research. "We observed the eight whales for nearly an hour and no hunting was observed during that time. Though we saw a dozen juvenile Dall Porpoises in Boundary Pass not far from the whales, and many harbor seals in the water off Stuart Island. It was reported by a whale-watch operator that these Transients fed earlier in the day off Discovery Island, so perhaps they were not hungry for the rest of the day."
