{"id":572380,"date":"2026-04-08T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:30:08","slug":"gray-whale-spotted-cruising-through-swinomish-channel-in-rare-skagit-county-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572380\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray whale spotted cruising through Swinomish Channel in rare Skagit County sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SKAGIT COUNTY, Wash.  \u2014 A rare visitor cruised through the Swinomish Channel on Tuesday morning &#8211; a gray whale!<\/p>\n<p>The Skagit County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the whale was seen swimming down the waterway on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The SCSO said gray whales are known to occasionally venture into Puget Sound waters while feeding, but seeing one in the Swinomish Channel is uncommon. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/juvenile-gray-whale-seen-in-north-fork-of-willapa-river-researchers-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Whale found dead after second sighting in a week on Willapa River, researchers say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the agency noted it is not the first time a gray whale has been seen there, with a similar sighting reported in May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>With tulip season underway, the sheriff\u2019s office called the sighting \u201ca special treat\u201d and urged anyone who sees the whale to keep a safe distance and give it plenty of space to travel naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>A gray whale<a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/juvenile-gray-whale-seen-in-north-fork-of-willapa-river-researchers-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> was found dead<\/a> on the Willapa River in southwest Washington on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SKAGIT COUNTY, Wash. \u2014 A rare visitor cruised through the Swinomish Channel on Tuesday morning &#8211; a gray&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-572380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572380","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=572380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}