[CINC] Cow-Calf Blues N of Scorpion

[Marty Flam]

Dear fellow CINC interpreters,
 
Are some of our Blues now on the move south?  Do any give birth here?
 
On Monday morning, Sept 14, Kat Wasden (Scorpion visitor center), her son and I (Cavern Point Hike) along with dozens of thrilled IPCO Island Adventure passengers under Capt. Jimmy observed  blows and backs of a cow-calf Blue pair as they swam within 40 yards of us for several minutes after we paused about 2/3 accross to Scorpion Anchorage.  (Remember the sighting north from the of Cathedral Cove Bluff Overlook last Friday on East Anacapa Island?)
 
So after a few day interlude from this summer's eastern channel sighting, are our Blues now heading east on their way south, or is this just randomness?  
 
Is this whale tale I heard on the Island Adventure Monday seem credible to you? 
"I saw a big Blue out here in June and a three days later saw what appear to be the same Blue in similar area but now was much skinnier and with a small calf."  
 
Thank you Staci and Ms. Roberta Codero (and those who make them available to us) for last night expanding and enriching our knowedge of these amazing Channel Islands, their waters and peoples.
 
Marty


--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Marty Flam <klez18 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


From: Marty Flam <klez18 at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Blues off EAI Cathedral 9/11
To: "CINC Rainlist" <channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org>
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 3:00 PM







About 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept 11, 
about eight blows in five minutes,
moderate surface travel heading east, 
about 400 yards north of East Anacapa's Cathedral Cove,
probably Blues, 
seen from Cathedral Cove overlook by Don Abbot and Marty Flam 
while leading afternoon Vanguard hikers to Inspiration Point.
 
--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Lisa Angle <langle411 at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Lisa Angle <langle411 at gmail.com>
Subject: [CINC] CondorX 9-12
To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 1:24 PM





*2 groups of Common Dolphins 100 and 200 
*Large group of about 100 Risso's 
*A couple of blue whales near Santa Rosa Island. At first they were moving very fast and Cpt. Dave said he thought it was racing behavior. Later they settled down and took more than one breath before diving again. Cpt. Mat said he thought that at the beginning there was a third blue that had taken off.  
*Megapod of 1000 Commons near Santa Rosa
*Naturalists: Morgan Coffey, Maryann Johansson, and me on PID
*Crew: Cpt. Mat, Cpt. Dave, Dennis (DJ), and crew-in-training Bailey
*One of the passangers puts out a zine about whales, you can check it out at http://www.kpetunia.com/whoosh.htm
*They'd issued whale checks on Friday but everybody was happy on Saturday
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