{"id":416705,"date":"2026-01-18T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416705\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:36:07","slug":"orcas-put-on-a-show-off-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416705\/","title":{"rendered":"Orcas put on a show off Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orcas put on a show<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Valdes, The Associated Press &#8211; Jan 16, 2026 \/ 8:30 pm | Story: 594733<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/81b42f844c7f31cd5d382638c5399b897280a0ddc3b1f74f9d2c346bea5d850c.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An orca whale breaches the surface of the water off Seattle on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. The whale was part of a pod that swam by the West Seattle neighborhood, attracting onlookers to shore. (AP Photo\/Manuel Valdes)<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view gallery<\/p>\n<p>With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orcas put on a show near Seattle on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The close encounter attracted dozens of people to the shore of the West Seattle neighborhood. Whale watchers identified the pod as Bigg&#8217;s killer whales, a group that hunts sea mammals and lives in the Salish Sea. The pod was seemingly hunting.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s Facebook page alerting of the pod&#8217;s arrival. The group tracks whales using reports from people on land and in the water.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>The creatures breached and slapped their tails for about an hour. Seabirds and a bald eagle trailed the pod, looking for scraps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orcas put on a show Manuel Valdes, The Associated Press &#8211; Jan 16, 2026 \/ 8:30 pm |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-416705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416705","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=416705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}