On July 25th we sailed out to the Coastguard Station and Peaked Hill with perfect sea and weather conditions—bright skies, light wind and calm seas. We observed over 19 humpbacks and 2 finbacks and identified various individuals including Apex, Canopy 2008 calf, Giraffe, Dome, Entropy, Loon, Nuages, Samovar, Ursa, Ventisca, Wyoming, Anvil & calf and […]
On July 18th we sailed out to the Southwest Corner of Stellwagen Bank with gray skies, fog, light wind and calm seas. Despite the challenging conditions, we had excellent sightings with 9 humpbacks, 1 finback and 2 minkes. In the morning the Dolphin VI observed a diversity of behaviors, including surface feeding and active behaviors. […]
We had ideal whale watching conditions on July 11th with bright skies, light wind and calm seas. While headed for Stellwagen Bank we observed over 15 humpback whales and 3 finback whales. We identified Alphorn, Aerospace, Elephant, Sundown, Pipette, Tulip and calf, Bolide and calf, Fern and calf. To our surprise the humpbacks were engaged […]
On June 27th we sailed to Stellwagen Bank with ideal whale sighting conditions, bright skies, light wind and glassy calm seas. We observed 8 humpback whales including Cardhu, Pixar, Snare and Ventisca. The whales demonstrated a myriad of active behaviors such as flipper slapping, breaching and lobtailing. Ventisca even became curious of our boat. She […]
John C. Conlon Without question the highlight of the past two weeks has been the shearwaters. Hundreds of them on an average day. Thousands on the hot trips! For the second year straight we have an irruption of Cory’s Shearwaters into our area from farther offshore and south. Generally our shearwater sightings are in the […]
On June 20th we sailed out to Peaked Hill with gray skies, light wind and moderate seas. We observed 16 humpback whales and 2 finback whales and identified Zeppelin, Canopy, Glo, Walrus, Trident and Nile. The whales demonstrated a myriad of behaviors including several active and feeding behaviors. Glo’s calf was putting on quit a […]
John C. Conlon Any body who took a whale watch trip during the last two weeks of June knows that fog, wind and rain were steady factors in looking at anything including seabirds. The fog is really not that unusual at this time of year. We see it during our trips. It burns off during […]
On June 13th we sailed to Peaked Hill with bright skies, light winds and calm seas. We observed 17-19 humpback whales and identified Belly, Shark, Ventisca, Tornado, Amulet, Habernero, Trident, Scylla and Thicket. Many of the whales were putting on quit a show, as they had found a large patch of sand lance. The whales […]
John C. Conlon As always June starts off slow in certain regards: not high numbers but high diversity. While the Iceland, Glaucous and Bonaparte’s gulls are pretty much gone, there are still regular sights of gannets. Small groups are regularly seen. Once or twice a week we’ve seen flocks of 100-150 or more. Scattered individuals […]
On June 5th we sailed out into Cape Cod Bay with excellent whale sightings conditions, low winds and calms seas. We observed 13 humpbacks and 3 finback whales. Many of the humpbacks were engaging in active behaviors such as lobtailing, breaching and flipper slapping. We identified Ventisca, Thread, Mayo, Salt, Cardu, Charger, Blackhole and calf, […]
