{"id":286,"date":"2019-03-09T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/09\/we-could-hear-them-feeding\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:38:58","slug":"we-could-hear-them-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/we-could-hear-them-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"We could hear them feeding!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nToday it was a beautiful morning with a calm sea. The visibility was quite good, and we spent all the trip with Santa Maria\u2019s Island visible in the horizon. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nToday our sea was full of common dolphins. We were with two different groups and both were quite big, of about one hundred dolphins with juveniles also present. This species is quite curious with the boat and loves to bow-ride the bow of “Cetus”, our catamaran. As they surfed along with the boat we could see them so close, what a beautiful sighting it was!<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe last group we found was foraging along the Cory\u2019s shearwaters. The birds stayed floating at surface always looking under the surface of the sea and ready to feed opportunistically on the fishes dolphins were “gathering” into a bait ball. In this moment we put our hydrophone inside the water connected to our sound system so all of us could hear the whistling communication and clicking echolocation of the dolphins as they were feeding! It is quite a beautiful sound. <\/span>
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