@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.socialLooks like they didn't go far before stalling out again:
14:38 - still milling with some surface activity south of Bush Point....they have been going back and forth. When I left it looked like they were drifting south. [Cindi via ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social13:30 - T137A Jack, a single Male Orca NB in Port Susan, last spotted about 1:30 northbound between Pirates Cove and Kayak Point. [John via PSWS]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social🐳GRAYS
Saratoga Passage
13:45 - I dont have footage because this one gray whale is so close to the beach all I can do is sit here and listen to its cavernous breathing and sloshing while feeding. I love that ! He's headed north towards Summerland [Camano] we are just south. [Peg via CWW]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.socialAfter spending time in Mutiny Bay this lovely group, T36/36Bs, T49A1 & T65Bs flipped back north:
13:15 - finally making some progress north, T49A1 & T65B1 trailing everyone else. The larger group very surface active still. [Rachel via ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.socialPresumably Jack and now up in southern end Port Susan:
12:19 - orca just south of Tyee...it is going northbound slowly and it seems to be only one. [Christi via CWW]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social10:51 - Huge orca out from I division [E side Hat Island]! Between Hat & Jetty [Islands]. Keeps turning around. Between Hat and the Jetty.
10:58 - Headed north, between Hat and Tulalip Bay. [Michele via HIWS]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social11:34 - surface active hunting approx. [outer north end Mutiny Bay].
11:44 - beginning to continue south along outer edge of Mutiny Bay. [Rachel via ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social11:19 - EC is leaving the incredible T36/Bs plus T49A1 (and I believe another whale yet IDed) currently strongly SB after a successful hunt and then wake surfing a large container ship wake. Midchannel between Bush and Double Bluff! [Alli via EC]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social09:30 - 2nd report around same time/place confirms solo male northbound off Clinton. #psws
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social10:05 - reported as 9 orcas, now south of PT/Coupeville ferry traffic lanes southbound. [WL]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.socialNot sure if this is Jack:
09:38 - orcas passing northbound close to the Whidbey shore at the Clinton ferry dock. [Natalie via ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social🐬🐬 ORCAS - Admiralty Inlet
09:40 - Got another pod of 6 Biggs headed south above Port Townsend. [Angie via ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social🐬ORCA (T137A Jack) - North Puget Sound
Report submitted at 08:46, time of sighting unknown of single male orca, photo confirms Jack, near Possession Bar, South Whidbey. [Katelyn via ONCG]
Possession Bar map by Navionics: West Bar left side, East Bar right side, Tin Shed is lower center.
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social💛🩶🖤 Sat, Sep 19
While inland waterways remained whale quiet yesterday, there was an abundance of beings beyond Puget Sound proper: Bigg's, humpbacks, minke, & SRKWs reported southbound in Strait of Georgia.
📸 J pod member spyhops in upper Admiralty Inlet. By Hongming Zheng, Wednesday 9/16
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social🩶🤍🩵 Fri, Sep 18
Yesterday, Bremerton peeps spent time w/T36s who stayed inland Puget Sound. After their time inland, J pod continued north in the Salish Sea to BC waters.
📸 Illuminated J pod members passing close inshore Whidbey upon exiting Puget Sound at sundown. By April Basham 9/16.
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social17:56 - [T36/36Bs] milling in northerly direction now towards Jeff head at cursor [transect due N Point Monroe & due east of Suquamish]. [Beriah via ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social15:30-17:35 - T36s exited Agate Passage into Port Madison around 15:30 and appeared to be heading NE toward Jefferson Head ~ 16:00. Appears they never really left as they are still in there, slightly NW of Point Monroe (N end Bainbridge) as of 17:35, presumably feeding. [Per reports on ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social13:37 - north of Illahee State Park, trending mid channel now and northbound. They seem more committed to traveling now, picking up speed. [Mollie via ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social12:53 - Emerald Clipper just left the T36/T36Bs NB at Pt Herron [just south of Bachmann Park]. [Cindi via ONCG]
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13:01- some very playful and surface active behavior just west of the entrance to PO [Port Orchard] passage. [Mollie via ONCG]
@pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social12:18 - Woop...orcas turned around - now heading NE in Sinclair same area as map in previous update of Naval Base generally.