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The Whale News Network provides a bird's-eye view of the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf. Regular network collaborators are dry-docked for the winter. Between November and May we therefore produce a shorter version of the weekly bulletin, thanks to special collaborators who continue to observe the St. Lawrence throughout the winter. |
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February 4th 2010, vol. 14 no4 
Portraits of observersEvery week we receive emails or calls from our loyal observers from the Gaspé Peninsula, the North Shore or even the Magdalen Islands. For them, watching the St. Lawrence is a way of life. Some of them watch for signs of activity from their patios. In Franquelin, for example, the gulls that circle above the water attract our observer's attention: a group of harp seals is hunting fish, which also happens to be the prey of the avian fauna. At Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé, an old sea wolf that no longer heads offshore continues to record everything in his logbook. In this early month of February he still observes whale blows every morning. A neighbour takes the time to note the behaviour of one of the animals in great detail: five to six large blows followed by dives of between eight and 10 minutes for the better part of the day. According to him, it's a blue whale. One marine mammal lover took advantage of a road trip between Newport and Gascons to scrutinize the sea and to stop and photograph the large blows she spotted. Another thinks nothing of bundling up warmly to hike the beaches of the Upper North shore, admiring the fauna that he happens to see: a gyrfalcon, gatherings of ducks and... on January 23, 15 beluga whales off Cape Bon-Désir. |
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The whale news network: Archives of 2010The whale news network: Archives of past yearsThe Network's List of Observers |
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