<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Just a little addition to Bhrian's report of the lunge feeding Blues last Wed.<br>on the Condor.<br><br>Yes, I did get several pics of lunge feeding. Most were lateral lunges with<br> a few vertical lunges that I missed, because they were too far away.<br> Mat said the krill layer was pretty shallow, about 5 feet deep or less, so<br> you could see the krill jumping out of the water ahead of the lunge !<br>Apparently the krill stay closer to the surface when it is cloudy and go deeper<br>when the sun comes out, so the whales feed accordingly. <br>Sea state was Beaufort 0 at that point so it was easy to see all this activity. <br>Besides that, we could see little water squirts coming up out of the surface.<br>It was a group of squid catching krill and squirting each time they caught one, <br> in a patch close to the boat.
All the blues were lunge feeding, and it was<br>a problem keeping track of what whale was in each picture. One was easy<br>to identify, because he had a bent right tail fluke that he showed right after<br>a lunge as he rolled on his side, expelling water. What a day ! Wish you all<br>could have been there. Be sure to look at Bob Perry's pictures. Carolyn<br><br> <br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 6/25/09, Marilyn Dannehower <i><mardanne@silcom.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Marilyn Dannehower <mardanne@silcom.com><br>Subject: blues lunge feeding?<br>To: "Carolyn McCleskey" <camccleskey@yahoo.com><br>Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 9:15 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1501888278">
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<div><font face="Arial">Hi CArolyn: DId you get any photos of the blues
lunge feeding? How wild was that?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">xo</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">mar</font></div>
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