{"id":182,"date":"2019-06-02T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/02\/sei-whale-sperm-whales-common-and\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:39:32","slug":"sei-whale-sperm-whales-common-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sei-whale-sperm-whales-common-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Sei whale, sperm whales, common and Risso’s dolphins in S\u00e3o Miguel…What else?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nToday was another fantastic day out on the water.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe
\nhad a misty morning, but we managed to find sperm whales<\/a> by tracking them
\nacoustically (by listening to them) with our hydrophone. It was the same group
\nthat we have been seeing for the past couple of weeks, as we could quickly
\nidentify some well known individuals including Penakabe and Coconut. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nDuring one
\nof the encounters we even got to see a double tail as one of the adults and a juvenile
\nwent on a deep dive in synchrony. It was great to also listen to the clicks of
\nthese whales on our hydrophone as they went down to feed. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nWe also encountered a
\nreally big group of common dolphins<\/a> in the morning and from one of our boats we
\nspotted the smallest newborn dolphin we have seen so far this year. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn the
\nafternoon we started with a friendly group of Risso’s dolphins<\/a> close to Ponta
\nDelgada. They were going on long dives, probably in search of food, but every
\ntime they came up to the surface we got to see them well. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nNext we headed back
\nto the area of the sperm whales where once again we heard them clicking on our
\nhydrophone. We waited for a while for one to surface, but we didn’t end up
\nseeing them. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nInstead we were surprised by a sei whale<\/a> that was spotted from our
\ncatamaran in the sperm whale area. We ended up having a nice encounter with
\nthis sei whale that was travelling close to the surface and coming up to
\nbreathe regularly. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nFrom one of our small boats we also had an encounter with
\ncommon dolphins near the whale area, and from our swimming boat in the
\nafternoon a minke whale was seen briefly, surprising everyone onboard.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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