Trip Note on Captain's Lady III of Newburyport Whale Watch with Naturalist Kristin Daley:

We travelled 49.73 miles on the water. Travelled from overcast 90°F Newburyport Harbor to Jeffreys Ledge, close to North Shore Ocean Sanctuary and The Salvages, about 74°F in the open ocean, partly sunny skies, very low waves and no winds. Saw my FOY & Lifer harbor porpoise in MA waters, I previously saw a lot of them in ME waters (like Boothbay Harbor and Downeast Maine).

We spotted 4 humpback whale individuals, including Satula, Clamp and her 2024 calf. Forgot the other individual's name we saw beside Satula.

We also observed almost all species of shearwaters that mostly common in Massachusetts waters: Cory’s shearwater, Manx shearwater, and great shearwater (We didn't see any sooty shearwater though). Additionally, we saw 20+ Wilson’s storm-petrels and 27 Great Black-backed Gulls in the open ocean. I even had a brief glimpse of a tiny warbler-like bird several miles north over The Salvages. I’m not sure what it could be—perhaps a migrating yellow warbler (no photos taken)?

Update 8/5/2024: The other humpback whale individual is identified as Pinball by another Facebook group member from Whale Watchers in the North Atlantic.

Update 8/7/2024: Per Happy Whale, we also had a glimpse of a whale named Sedge: https://happywhale.com/user/30868;enc=480552

Posted on August 4, 2024 03:33 PM by tianshuo