Whale Song in NYC
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He just wanted some seafood for dinner.
A humpback whale made a splash at Rockaway Beach Sunday, swimming close to the shore while chasing a school of fish.
Photographer Phil Ng took this shot of the whale diving as he passed by on a tour boat.
“It’s rare to see them that close to shore,’’ he said. “It was heading inland, chasing fish. It was interesting seeing it so close to the city.
“When we think of natural wildlife here, we think of raccoons or pigeons or maybe an escaped parrot,’’ the Brooklyn resident noted.
“So to see something that could accidentally swallow you whole . . . ”
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I've also seen a ton of them out in the canyons about 70 miles out during Tuna season. Its obviously not as rare with the water being 2000 ft deep. I've been a fisherman practically all my life...my business partner bought his 1st boat about 7 yrs ago( onto his 3rd now
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oh man...that is awful.
this thread jinxed it :x
uhm, not really.
They've said illness is what brought it to "beach" itself,
and indeed the prognosis was not good.
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and with my buildings behind them,....
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This is why i don't kayak
amazing spectacle.
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I have not been as close as this guy in the boat,
but even as much as 50-100 yards from the shore is mesmerizing enough;
as they bop up and down on the horizonline and blowing mist, and (rarely) breaching the water..
Obviously as seen in this video they are feeding, and have the fish literally jumping out of the water.
Purely speculation, but I read here in Rockaway and some of Long Island as well,
that we lost all of our sandbars and coastal shelves along the shore after Superstorm Sandy,
allowing them to approach even closer to the shore more than they ever could before .
I also suspect September is some sort of migrational period for the whales
because I remember the last 2 Septembers
having increasing reports of whale sightings off of the coast all over NYC/Long Island.
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yes there are endangered resident orcas (pods J, K & L) in the waters around lower Vancouver island...thru the straights, around the San Juan islands down into Puget sound. in 2001 my kids and I were on the Victoria Star (a small passenger-only ferry) from Bellingham heading over to Victoria....just the easiest way to get there, it wasn't like it was a whale watching tour...
anyway as the boat turned into a passage between islands it came upon the L pod...so the captain cut the engines to not harm them. (my camera was out of film...x%*#^!) it was unreal as we watched from the starboard side, there were orcas all over, we lost count of how many we saw. the boat just drifted along as they were on all sides of us. then after just about all of the pod had swam by, a mommy and her newborn calf breached right in front of us, within just feet of the boat!
at the time the captain remarked the baby couldn't be more than a few weeks old. well since all the southern resident orcas have names, and can also be identified by their markings. a few yrs ago i was able to tell that the mommy we saw mustve been Ino L-54 with her lil baby Indigo L-100. (both are still doing well according to recent sightings)
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