Mon July 7 – Whale Watching
Our 1st 3 species day of the season!!
We left the dock ready to look for the humpback whales sighted the day before (7/6/25). We new it would take a while to get out to the zone and began looking esly and found a small pod of about 10 Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins. They were nice to view, but very elusive and we continued our way. We found a humpback whale with a highly curved dorsal fin. It was making shallow dives and rarely putting it’s flukes. Actually, it was logging most of the time, that is, essentially sleeping just at or below the surface. Occasionally fluking and diving deep and staying down for 5-7 minutes ((the prey was 150’ down). The 1.5 hours, this was travelling ENE and surfacing to blow every 30 seconds while sleeping. Of course, we joined out there by several pods of short-beaked common dolphins. These dolphins swam towards us, with and around us for a while as we remained out if gear.
We also encountered the typical array of pelagic birds and picked up more balloons.
This was a great trip and we are trying to ID this humpback whale . Check back with us in a few days.
10 Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins
12-15 Short-beaked common dolphins
1 Humpback whale
Great shearwaters
Cory’s shearwaters
Wilson’s storm pertrels
Photos will be published at https://drartiek-cresli.smugmug.com/CRESLI-2025-Whale-Watches/2025-07-07-Montauk-Whale-Watch
