[KWlocate] Acoustic hints that J-1 is separated

[Cathy Bacon]

This is all very disturbing. I do hope he is not lost and is okay. I will listen in to see what I can here.
Cathy

Cathy Bacon

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Smultea Environmental Sciences, LLC (SES)

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--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Scott Veirs <scott at beamreach.org> wrote:

From: Scott Veirs <scott at beamreach.org>
Subject: [KWlocate] Acoustic hints that J-1 is separated
To: locate at orcasphere.net
Cc: "John Ford" <fordjo at pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 7:28 PM

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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