[CINC] Blues lunge feeding?

[Carolyn McCleskey]

Just a little addition to Bhrian's report of the lunge feeding Blues last Wed.
on the Condor.

Yes, I did get several pics of lunge feeding.  Most were lateral lunges with
 a few vertical lunges that I missed, because they were too far away.
  Mat said the krill layer was pretty shallow, about 5 feet deep or less, so
 you could see the krill jumping out of the water ahead of the lunge !
Apparently the krill stay closer to the surface when it is cloudy and go deeper
when the sun comes out, so the whales feed accordingly.  
Sea state was Beaufort 0 at that point so it was easy to see all this activity. 
Besides that, we could see little water squirts coming up out of the surface.
It was a group of squid catching krill and squirting each time they caught one, 
 in a patch close to the boat.  All the blues were lunge feeding, and it was
a problem keeping track of what whale was in each picture.  One was easy
to identify, because he had a bent right tail fluke that he showed right after
a lunge as he rolled on his side, expelling water.  What a day !  Wish you all
could have been there.  Be sure to look at Bob Perry's pictures.   Carolyn

  

--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Marilyn Dannehower <mardanne at silcom.com> wrote:

From: Marilyn Dannehower <mardanne at silcom.com>
Subject: blues lunge feeding?
To: "Carolyn McCleskey" <camccleskey at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 9:15 AM



 
 

Hi CArolyn:  DId you get any photos of the blues 
lunge feeding?  How wild was that?
xo
mar
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