Here's our first staff photo-ID challenge! Amanda (Whale U instructor and research assistant) and Vanessa (webstore manager and research assistant) face off for two rounds of Bigg's killer whale flashcards.
Can you ID any of these whales as you play along?
#salishsea #orcas #whalesky
Beautiful day yesterday watching killer whales travel up the northern Orcas Island shoreline. The light was absolutely drool-worthy.
#orca #killerwhales #wildlife #wildlifephotography #pnw #pnwlife #salishsea #sanjuanislands
Killer whales surfacing to take a breath
Beautiful day yesterday watching killer whales travel up the northern Orcas Island shoreline. The light was absolutely drool-worthy.
#orca #killerwhales #wildlife #wildlifephotography #pnw #pnwlife #salishsea #sanjuanislands
Book cover of Seabirds as Sentinels by Eric Wagner alongside a praise quote from author Michelle Nijhuis. Text reads: Seabirds Live! May 13.
Trust Eric Wagner to see the poetry in science." Hear him discuss Seabirds as Sentinels live at Seabirds Live! — free, May 13, UW Tacoma. Link in bio to register.
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#SeabirdsLive #SalishSea #RhinocerosAuklet #Seabirds #BookEvent
It’s a beautiful morning and all I can think about is peace. Let peace fill our hearts, our worlds and our universe 💖✨🦋
#RockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday #ArtChallenge #DailyArt #Nature #Rocks #EastCoastKin #OceanVibes #PhotographersUnited #SalishSea #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Peace
Calm Seas on a Spring day
#vancouverisland #campbellriver #photography #Spring #straitofgeorgia #salishsea #sailboat @weathernetwork.bsky.social
My new book has a NEW link. Here's the info & link to order in PDF or print. You can page through it using "Preview" tool - cool sound effects as the pages "turn". 😀
#photography #nature #wildlife #SalishSea #naturephotography #boating #BCcoast #environment @blurbbooks
www.blurb.ca/b/12815082-e...
A male Bigg's killer whale surfaces in front of the Lime Kiln Lighthouse in Haro Strait near San Juan Island, Washington
T65B1 Birdsall passing Lime Kiln lighthouse this afternoon
#orcas #killerwhales #salishsea #whalesky
🐳🦭🦀 Support the Salish Sea Aquarium! 🐚🐠
#yyjevents #victoriaevents #sidneybc #vancouverisland #salishsea #magic #jasonverners
The Brant Geese making their annual visit to #Parksville. #photography #ECK #nature #wildlife #migration #SalishSea #BCParks #RathtrevorPP #VanIsle #home
Parent and child sitting on logs on a sandy beach. Ocean beyond and light cloudy sky
Place to ponder
#MeerMittwoch #salishsea #photography
A bluff top trail leads out to the shoreline through a mixture of new green grass, and the golden dead twigs from the last season.
Glowing clouds burst with warm light at Sunset. Air temp was a cool 39 F
Golden light hitting the dried winter grass at sunset.
Looking eastward from Grandma’s Cove towards Cattle Point Lighthouse at Sunset. Whidbey Island can be seen in the distant lowland with Lopez Island in the center of the photo.
We’ve had some incredible #Sunset sightings recently.
Amazing light qualities too!
#Photography #Nature
#Seascape #PNW #SalishSea
#TidesOutTuesday
Here’s one from Sunday evening for #TidesOutTuesday. #Sunset over the #SalishSea was spectacular! A little #Nature to fix things up! #AmericanCamp #SanJuanIsland #PNW
#WashingtonState
A rugged coastline stretches into the distance under a brooding overcast sky, where wind-sculpted conifers cling to lichen-streaked cliffs above a small dark cove, and a forested island sits low on the horizon across the pale gray water of the Salish Sea.
Wind-bent trees, fractured rock, and lichen everywhere.
#TidesOutTuesday #RockinTuesday #photography #pnw #seascape #clouds #landscape #nature #landscapephotography #salishsea
Pink sunset over the Olympic Mountain Range in Washington State taken from the ferry, so there is water in the foreground. High peaks with snow on them and many different colors. We were looking for the whales...
Friday night ferry ride. Sunset March 27th.
Sunset over the Olympic Mountains in Washington state. Even better in real life. #Sunset #salishSea #opotoutside #waterlife #ferry #washington #lookup
🐋 💙 #orca #JPod #ocean #Pacific #SalishSea #PNW #nature #marinelife #naturelovers 🐳
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A Glaucous-winged Gull chick at about 40 days of age. At a former study site in the #SalishSea, British Columbia.
#gulls #BirdOfTheDay #birds
A young orca calf surfaces surrounded by its family in the San Juan Islands. This calf is one of the newest members of the Bigg's killer whale population and has been designated T49A7.
This evening we were lucky enough to meet one of the newest members of the regional Bigg's killer whale population, calf T49A7 that was first seen earlier this month. You can see them here surrounded by the other orcas in the T49A matriline 😍
#orcas #whalesky #salishsea #wssjis
A dark red and white sailboat with two large white sails up, bolstered by wind, sailing on Puget Sound, with Bainbridge Island visible in the background. There is a blue sky above with thick fluffy white and grey clouds.
A sailboat in Puget Sound, with Bainbridge Island in the background
#BlueSkyMonday #BlueSky #PugetSound #PNW #Seattle #Boating #Photography #Scape #SalishSea
Every fall, Short‑tailed Shearwaters from Australia are suddenly flooding the Salish Sea. Once rare here, they now appear in the thousands. Marine heatwaves up north are likely pushing them to new feeding grounds. We’re watching climate‑driven migration change in real time.
#shearwater #SalishSea
sometimes
when it's really quiet
you can hear
the delicate burble
of a tiny cresting wave
oil on paper - 2017
#art #oilpainting #SalishSea #seascape
A male orca surfaces through the waves. © Katie Jones
Had a cold, but wonderful visit with orcas this afternoon. The is T46E. His name is Thor and he was born in 2003. He was doing funny little chin-ups through the waves this afternoon.
#orcas #killerwhales #pnw #pnwphotographer #wildlifephotography #wildlife #salishsea
A Washington State ferry in front of the snow-capped Olympic Mountains in Puget Sound.
This weekend truly had all four seasons in Puget Sound! There were some beautiful sights to be had in between the squalls, like this Washington State Ferry in front of the Olympic Mountains sporting a fresh coat of snow.
#salishsea
Your daily reminder that while the northern lights are a natural phenomena, the border between Washington and BC is not #CascadiaBioregion #CoastSalish #SalishSea
#Orca 🐋 #whales #pnw #salishsea #seattle 🇺🇸 #vancouver #britishcolumbia 🇨🇦 #marinelife 🐋 🐳 💙
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Humpback whale leaping out of the surface of the Salish Sea
Read about the naming of #SalishSea Humpback whales Blue Moon and Eddy Fitz in Western Today!
Read for free: news.wwu.edu/meet-blue-mo...
download access for a new tidal current atlas for the #SalishSea in PDF format
www.dewey.ca/home/sstca
