With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orcas put on a show near Seattle on Friday. <\/p>\n
The close encounter attracted dozens of people to the shore of the West Seattle neighborhood. Whale watchers identified the pod as Bigg\u2019s killer whales, a group that hunts sea mammals and lives in the Salish Sea. The pod was seemingly hunting. <\/p>\n
Among the people watching from Alki Beach was Summer Staley. She drove from across the city to catch the orcas after seeing a post on the Orca Network\u2019s Facebook page alerting of the pod\u2019s arrival. The group tracks whales using reports from people on land and in the water. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just such a beautiful connection with nature and with the universe to be sharing the same space with these beautiful creatures,\u201d said Staley, who has seen the orcas a few dozen times over the last year. \u201cHow lucky am I to be able to share this space with them?\u201d<\/p>\n
The creatures breached and slapped their tails for about hour. Seabirds and a bald eagle trailed the pod, looking for scraps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orcas put on a show near Seattle on Friday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2837,49,48,2848,2847,2841,26204,62027,1283,66,7675,2845,38897,3642,16580,323],"class_list":["post-415768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-general-news","tag-oceans","tag-or-state-wire","tag-oregon","tag-science","tag-seattle","tag-u-s-news","tag-wa-state-wire","tag-washington","tag-whales","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}