#biggs orca

[cipher-the-sidhe]

Bigg’s killer whale looking for a sea lion snack in the Salish Sea 02/08/24.

Photo from the Center for Whale Research

[lightningshotss]

CA 140 Emma

Transient Killer whale (orcinus orca)

taken off the coast of California

The killer whale populations here are studied by local scientists and so many are known/familiar individuals! This is just the dorsal fin of one but she is one of the most frequently seen and easily recognized matriarchs - CA 140 Emma. To identify a killer whale they use their eye patch and dorsal fin and Emma has this double notch in her dorsal resembling an m or E. If I recall she’s even in some nature documentaries (specifically ones where they hunt gray whales since she’s well known for these hunts).

[ahhscheisse]

New prints and stickers are up in my shops! I got some Loving Orca prints and holographic art stickers on etsy and a whole bunch’a other stuff on redbubble and threadless. Check em out, if ya wanna.

[littlewalken]

Meet Tu’lk the pale Biggs calf and his bad ass baby mustache (the four dots on his rostrum)

[littlewalken]

Bewwy Fwops!

[wildorcaaviation]

31 March 2018...between 19:00 & 20:30 PST. The Comox Valley Wildlife Sightings FB page had posted that eleven Biggs orcas were seen heading south in two groups from Campbell River...so naturally, lots of people were excited. That was around noon. It literally took them half the day to travel from CR to Key Bay...in the Comox Valley. My wife, kids and I piled into our trusty microvan (Mazda5) and drove to Point Holmes, Where we expected them to pass by. But. They stopped around the Airforce/Kin Beach area and...well, hung out...feeding on herring, and chasing sea lions. (They got very close to shore, when chasing sea lions near the Little River ferry terminal) We left Point Holmes after 45 minutes of getting cold, and headed for the ferry terminal; though before turning onto the road that'd take us from Little River Rd to the terminal, I decided to drive to the beach access that was at the end of the road. The above grainy, low quality cellie pics are the result. Seeing and hearing orcas that close, is breathtaking.....I think I died of pure happiness.