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March 1: Whale of a Day! Our migration officially switched from primarily southbound to primarily northbound on Feb.23, our "migration turnaround" date. Although we will see some southbound whales, northbound whale counts will increase for several weeks, usually peaking in mid/late March. No cow/calf pairs yet; they usually peak about 4-6 weeks after the first phase (non-cow/calves). Our December count reached a 31-season record high! Our southbound count is the highest in 16 seasons, and third highest ever. From December 1st, the day we started counting, though March 1st, we've counted 1185 southbound (including 14 newborn calves), and 244 northbound. Courtesy of Alisa Schulman-Janiger include (rtrim($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '/'."jnorth/www/includes/eg_nav_copyright_current.inc"); ?> |