12/8/2025 - Another Named Humpback Whale
Several weeks ago, I went on a 12-hour pelagic trip out of Cape May, NJ. I had been looking forward to getting out on the water specifically to look for marine life instead of fishing and incidentally noting the wildlife. It was mid-November and while I was hoping for many different marine species, realistically I knew that there likely would not be as much as I hoped. November is a ‘tweener month. It was getting late for many of the summer species to still be around and yet a little too early for many of the winter species to have arrived. I knew the storm-petrels and most of the large shearwaters had already departed. It was a little early for our winter alcids to be around, but razorbills could start filtering in at any time. Many of our terns had vacated, but Bonaparte’s gulls were already around and maybe so would some black-legged kittiwakes . Being that was only a 12-hour trip, I knew we would not get out far enough...