Blue Ocean Society's Whale Sightings

Greetings! Thanks for visiting our blog. Our staff and interns will be posting their experiences here working on whale watch boats in NH and MA.

Monday, August 8, 2011

August 8- Prince of Whales

Very fun whale/bird watching trip today!

We found:
9 minke whales
1 fin whale
3 harbor seals
3 ocean sunfish
3 sharks (likely blue sharks but not confirmed)
925 Wilson's storm petrels
98 great shearwaters
4 manx shearwaters
4 cory's shearwaters
1 sooty shearwater
39 northern gannets
1 parasitic jaeger
7 lesser yellowlegs
1 cormorant (offshore-out of habitat)

Here are a few of our photos from the trip:

Ocean sunfish

Ocean sunfish


Great shearwater

Great shearwater

Plethora of birds

Minke whale pointed rostrum

Minke whale blowholes

Minke whale with entanglement scar on dorsal fin



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