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Local naturalist Rob Fowler caught a pretty spectacular sight on Humboldt Bay this afternoon. He was able to grab some video of it, and he was kind enough to share that video with us.<\/p>\n
Here, let him tell the story:<\/p>\n
\nHey
\nLost Coast Outpost, here\u2019s a video of what seems to be a
\nfamily group of five Orcas that were far into the Eureka Channel of
\nHumboldt Bay this afternoon.<\/p>\n
\nWe
\nfirst encountered them about a 1\/4 mile south of the Wharfinger
\nbuilding\/Marina Way and last saw them before they dove and
\ndisappeared as they headed northwest of Woodley Island and seemed to
\ncontinue heading north.<\/p>\n
\nThey
\nwere then refound about a 1\/2 hour later from Samoa and were headed
\nsouth. That observer was Cedric Von Briel. And the Cal Poly boat also
\nsaw them as they were heading in from a deep water pelagic birding
\ntrip that headed as far as 70 miles offshore.<\/p>\n
\nHere\u2019s
\nanother shorter video (below) when they got pretty close to the boat. Seemed
\nlike a big male (big tall dorsal fin) and at least four females and a
\nsmaller younger animal with them.<\/p>\n
\nThis
\nwas after coming in from a pelagic birding trip that I organized as a
\nchase trip for the very rare Short-tailed Albatross, three of which were
\nseen last Sunday offshore
\nof Humboldt Bay over the Eel River Canyon.<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n<\/p>\n
CORRECTION: This happened at about 4 p.m. this afternoon, Fowler tells us, not in the morning as we originally wrote. Apologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"### Local naturalist Rob Fowler caught a pretty spectacular sight on Humboldt Bay this afternoon. He was able…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-348274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}