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2008 Life at Campo Cortez
March 1, 2008
Naturalist report 3
Wow! Our new census comes in at 223 whales in the lagoon! This is better than last year at this same time. This is great news! More whales, more activity and we are enjoying all the above the water activity! We are seeing mating behavior every where! Yesterday we were watching several whales mating and at one point, one of the whales did a huge tail slap! The sound it made across the water was amazing! It was a pretty large fluke, most likely the female! (see photo)!
Today our group saw what they believed was a pregnant female. She was huge and unusually shaped and hung out with the boat for a long time. She didn’t let anyone touch her, but she seemed to like the company. This would be kind of a late baby, but we are seeing lots of late behavior this year. Perhaps with our La Nina, everything is a little later this year. Our flight group claimed to see a baby being born from the plane coming over the lagoon!
Yesterday and also today, we saw about 1000 + cormorants roosting along one of the sandbars, then they all took off and it was an incredible site! Telling of a very healthy ecosystem here in the lagoon thanks to the great management!
We will continue to hope our numbers keep going up with the new census next week.
All for now!
~Adrienne~
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