{"id":647,"date":"2017-10-31T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/31\/october-2017-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:37:04","slug":"october-2017-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/october-2017-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2017 sighting statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nAnother month has come to an end, so we have our new sighting statistics for the month in, and it’s been a great month for whale and dolphin watching off S\u00e3o Miguel Island in the Azores. During October we encountered a total of 11 different cetacean species (5 whale species and 6 dolphin species). This year it seemed like a never ending summer, as great weather conditions and sightings more typical of mid-summer continued right until the end of the month. We’ve been seeing more sperm whales<\/a> than usual, as well as big feeding groups of Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a> which are very typical of the warmer months in the Azores. We even had a day with Bryde’s whales<\/a>, which to our surprise turned out to be the mother and calf pair that we have been watching the whole summer. Another great surprise was a tour with two blue whales<\/a> that were travelling at great speed and coming high out of the water. Every tour brings us a new surprise, we really never know what we will see!<\/div>\n
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