From my time on boats in BC! - I should have some condo birding news eventually...
Distant Humpback doing "cartwheels"
Typical view of Humpbacks -a "blow" on the left, and a shallow dive/travelling on the right.
Two Humpbacks up close. When you see tail (on the left) - it typically means the dive will be deep - so you wont' see it for a little while
Another close Humpback - the spray in the air is the leftover "blow" (breathing)
The next two images are of "flick feeding" - a behaviour I only saw once. They can really throw a lot of water with their tails! (Flukes?)
Pretty phenomenal creatures! Someday I'll have to create a proper index for mammal images on my website. For now, it doesn't exist!
How does flick feeding work?
ReplyDeleteI've got no idea - I was lucky to work with an extremely knowledgeable marine biologist who told me what they were doing - and that's the only reason I can even pass along this info!
DeleteNice....at least you can answer what they are doing in your pictures
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