Puget Sound Whale Sightings

These Ts are cruising:

13:59 - continuing to travel northeast trending toward Everett. Passing Mukilteo- Clinton ferry terminal. [Hannah via oncg]

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12:35 - orcas are now north of Stamm Overlook park, Edmonds continuing northbound. Based on Swiftsure via AIS & earlier reports pod appears to keeping tucked inshore as they move north.

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11:46 - …nice group of orcas gracefully slid by Richmond [Beach] well inside the noaa buoy northbound. Visible eye. [Justin via DM]

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🐬ORCAS - Central Puget Sound

No updates since:
09:08 - 4 orcas in Elliot Bay, milling, about a half mile south of Pier 91. [ON]

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🌊🧚 🌊 Wed, Dec 3
After exiting Port Susan, yesterday's pod spent at least part of Tuesday in Possession Sound, between Hat Island & Everett. Looking forward to seeing if they, or anyone, show up today.

📸 T137D Wright (F, born 2012) from atop the Deception Pass bridge. By Kat Martin 11/30.

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12:24 - …they have exited Port Susan and are southbound, mid channel. [Cindi via oncg]

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They’ve turned back south:

11:21 - orcas [at least 4, incl. male] are southbound in port Susan - passed Kayak Point. [Linda via oncg]

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🐬 ORCAS - Port Susan

09:30 is latest on pod of orcas moving up Port Susan. At this time report had themin northern end mid channel still northbound. [via oncg]

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🩵 🫧☔️ Tue, Dec 2
Orcas keeping a presence inland Puget Sound. Reports this morning have a group up in Port Susan, east side of Camano Island.

📸 A member of the T137s navigating Deception Passage on Nov 30th. The family exited via Canoe Pass. By Michelle Brodsky from the bridge.

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A new hydrophone went up last week in Haro Strait, located between Lime Kiln and Orcasound Lab. 🎵🐬🎶🐋

14:10 - pod went west through Deception Pass via Canoe Pass. [Rachel & Serena via oncg]

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Vague on location and no direction, but here’s an update on this whale:

13:15 - baleen whale off Magnolia just north of yellow buoy. [Kathryn via oncg]

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13:55 - Westbound near Yokeko Point, close to Fidalgo shore. [Serena via oncg]

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This Elliott Bay whale was heading north at time of the original morning sighting.

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13:05 - still northbound nearing Ala Spit.
13:12 - seemed to have stalled on a hunt out from Ala Spit. [Rachel via oncg]

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12:13 - T137s cruising north past Davis Landing/Borgman Road. Split in pairs, T137 & T137D together, T137A & T137B together. [Rachel via oncg]

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Earlier report for the record; if same group they came from Penn Cove:

09:00 - 3 Orcas in Penn Cove! Rang the bell on the Coupeville dock. [N side due north of the wharf] [WA app]

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🐬🐬 ORCAS (group two) - upper Saratoga Passage

11:30 - Report of approx. 4 orcas surface active and milling around off Mariner Cove, Whidbey.
“ Initially southbound but turned around and headed back toward the marina entrance (northbound)” [Marianne via oncg]

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🐋 WHALE - Central Puget Sound
Appreciations to @hungryhorse3.bsky.social for letting us know of a whale in Elliott Bay, downtown Seattle:

11:04 - There’s a whale off pier 62. Maybe a humpback.

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Awesome thanks. Any update? Did the whale travel in any direction that you know of?

09:28 - I only saw the one small group of 3. They were headed to the Edgewater beach side but I think the ferry restarting (they stalled to let them pass) made them change their direction and then they headed up west side of Hat Island. [Stephanie via oncg]

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Possibly same group, possibly 2nd group, depends on location of earlier group and speed of travel:

Possession Sound
09:12 - 3 orcas reported approx. 1/2 mile due north of Mukilteo Lighthouse park. No direction of travel included. [Whale Alert app]

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🐬 ORCAS - S Possession Sound/N Puget Sound proper

08:21- 4 orcas reported as viewed southern Mukilteo across from Possession Point. Location and direction of the orcas not included. [per WA app report]

Hopefully an update soon.

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💦🌪️💦 Sun, Nov 30
Yesterday: several groups of orcas & at least one humpback were inland Puget Sound.
Today: orcas reported somewhere in southern Possession Sound and/or North Puget Sound proper.

📸 Another peek at last week's breaching humpback (see yesterday's post). By Hongming Zheng.

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11:10 - I see one Camano side of mid out from Cama Beach southbound. [Rachel via oncg]

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🐬ORCAS - Saratoga Passage

10:50 - orcas heading south off Whidbey 1.5 miles north of Hidden Beach…Initially I saw 2 to 3 very close to Whidbey but later on I saw more mid channel maybe even a male, but they were pretty far south of me at that point. [Aaron via oncg]

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🐋 HUMPBACK - North/Central Puget Sound

10:40 - Heyo!!! Down in Edmonds today and saw a Humpback about a mile off of the Edmonds fishing pier traveling south east. Near ferry lanes traveling towards the direction of the dog park. [EJ via oncg]

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🫧🐋🫧Sat, Nov 29
Today: reports of orcas by Whidbey & a humpback off Edmonds. Hope you have a chance to see these lovely beings, would love to hear if you do.

📸 A humpback, seen here breaching backdropped by Golden Gardens, has been keeping a presence this week. Photo by Hongming Zheng.

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14:20- they appear to be hunting. Orcas are multidirectional and even from afar think I saw a porpoise trying to porpoise away (looked to small to be a youngster).
And correcting to mid channel to maybe this side of. Maybe out from or south of Tyee. Alisa

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14:10 - Port Susan: from Kayak Point seeing blows and dorsal well to the south, they do appear to be continuing north, mid channel to Camano side. Alisa LB

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