New England Whale Watch - Four New Whales And One Resighting
A few weeks ago, I took my last whale watching trip for the year out of Plymouth, MA. This trip, like the previous ones, did not disappoint. Matter of fact, each succeeding trip I took this year was somehow better than the last. This trip was, however, scant on seabirds. A nice flock of foraging Manx shearwaters and a lone Leach’s storm-petrel were the only avian highlights. Dozens of Atlantic white-sided dolphins zipping around the boat made up for the lack of birds, but the success of the day was defined by the whales. On the day we had somewhere around twentyish humpback whales that included several calves. I have been on trips with not a single whale to be had, so twenty in a three-plus hour trip is special. Not only were there multiple whales in sight at any given time, but we had as many as seven giants surface at the same time near the boat. I had never seen seven whales together at one time. The only d...