[KWlocate] Acoustic hints that J-1 is separated

[Susan Berta]

Just submitted a report on OS upload - he's there again, same calls -
susan

At 11:28 AM 1/27/2010, Scott Veirs wrote:
>Hi Jeanne et al.,
>
>I am a bit worried J1 is separated as in lost.  I need to measure 
>more, but at first re-listen I only hear 6 non-S42s (all S10s) in 
>Laura's recording.  None of them overlap with the S42 and all seem 
>to have bearings consistent with the bearings of the S42s.
>
>Also, a third of the S10s follow so quickly after an S42 that the 
>responder could not have been more than 300m away from the caller. 
>(This assumes the pair of calls constitutes a call/response with the 
>S42 originating near the hydrophone and the S10 far away.)
>
>Feel free to add measurements here:
>http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tS1oI5gIdjdrWF8w4z1VQ5g
>I'm outta time on this for today/tomorrow...
>
>Can folks log any other calls they hear or heard?
>
>I didn't feel there was a typical range of fainter (implying more 
>distant) calls...
>
>Has anyone seen J1 or any SRKW do this before?  (Specifically, go 
>down Haro making repetitive calls while other pod members are not 
>within sight?)  Remind me what happened with Spock and Comet?
>
>Fretting in Seattle,
>Scott
>
>On 1/26/10 6:10 PM, Jeanne Hyde wrote:
>>Hi Scott,
>>thanks for that info...that's really interesting...and Laura Swan's
>>recording is excellent...that's what I was hearing before heading out
>>the door.
>>
>>Your subject line...hum?...'A hint that J-1 is separated' is concerning
>>for me...did you mean separated as like Spock and Comet were from any
>>other whales last June? or did you mean only in by distance as the rest
>>of the pod was just 'over there a ways' ?
>>
>>Thanks for all the recording clips from today. (I made a link on my blog
>>post) I heard several different calls on them...which makes me think
>>that the rest of the pod was just way over by Vancouver Island as Dave
>>E. had suggested to me. It was strange not to see any other whales with
>>Ruffles, and I hate to think that he is 'separated' as in 'lost from the
>>rest of the pod.'
>>
>>thanks again Scott for today. It was great!
>>Jeanne
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>>*From:* Scott Veirs <scott at beamreach.org>
>>*To:* locate at orcasphere.net
>>*Sent:* Tue, January 26, 2010 4:39:17 PM
>>*Subject:* [KWlocate] A hint that J-1 is separated
>>
>>Here's a note from John Ford re the repetitive calls we heard today:
>>
>>"Interesting recording. The attached clip certainly appears to be a
>>sequence of S42s, though the limited bandwidth cuts off the distinctive
>>terminal high frequency component. I assume that the visual account of
>>the lone male is to imply this was the source of the calls? This would
>>make sense, as I've often heard whales that are traveling apart from the
>>rest of the group repeat a single call over a long period in a similar
>>fashion, though mostly just in the northern residents. This kind of
>>repetitive calling is usually associated with high excitement levels."
>>
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