With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orcas put on a show near Seattle on Friday. <\/p>\n
The close encounter attracted dozens of people to the shore of the West Seattle neighborhood. Whale watchers identified the pod as Bigg\u2019s killer whales, a group that hunts sea mammals and lives in the Salish Sea. The pod was seemingly hunting. <\/p>\n
Among the people watching from Alki Beach was Summer Staley. She drove from across the city to catch the orcas after seeing a post on the Orca Network\u2019s Facebook page alerting of the pod\u2019s arrival. The group tracks whales using reports from people on land and in the water. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just such a beautiful connection with nature and with the universe to be sharing the same space with these beautiful creatures,\u201d said Staley, who has seen the orcas a few dozen times over the last year. \u201cHow lucky am I to be able to share this space with them?\u201d<\/p>\n
The creatures breached and slapped their tails for about hour. Seabirds and a bald eagle trailed the pod, looking for scraps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orcas put on a show near Seattle on Friday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3425,10109,10106,57,930,6065,212,159,2086,61,67,132,68,2057,2058,12793,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-521959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-climate","10":"tag-climate-and-environment","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-oceans","13":"tag-or-state-wire","14":"tag-oregon","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-seattle","17":"tag-u-s-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-wa-state-wire","22":"tag-washington","23":"tag-whales","24":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115908571433170478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}