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\nToday we had our first tours of June and we started off in one of the best ways we can think of – with blue whales<\/a>! These biggest animals of the world pass through the Azores on their migration during the spring months and we are happy that they are still here for us to enjoy. In the morning we had two whales around and in the afternoon we encountered one again, perhaps one from the morning, which analysis of our photos will reveal later. We could see that they have been feeding on krill<\/a> recently, from the orange colour of the poo left behind on the surface in the morning. We also had common dolphins<\/a> and bottlenose dolphins<\/a> present throughout the day, two of our resident dolphin species that always put smiles on our faces. Especially the bottlenose dolphins in the afternoon, as they were socialising. We got to see many jumps from them, as well as spyhopping and belly showing.<\/div>\n

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\nPhotos from the morning:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nBlue whale blow<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBlue whale<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBlue whale leaving an orange poo patch at the surface<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nOne of our boats out this morning<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCory’s shearwater<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

Photos from the afternoon:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nBlue whale surfacing<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBlue whale diving<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nOne of our zodiac boats with bottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nA curious young bottlenose dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins socialising<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphin leaping<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we had our first tours of June and we started off in one of the best ways…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[179,143,3,10,4],"yoast_head":"\nJune starts with blue whales - Azores Whales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/june-starts-with-blue-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"June starts with blue whales - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we had our first tours of June and we started off in one of the best ways…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/june-starts-with-blue-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-02T16:57:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:36:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0421-CC3B3pia.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"426\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Azores Whales\",\"description\":\"Azores Whale Watching Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/june-starts-with-blue-whales\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0421-CC3B3pia.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0421-CC3B3pia.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":426},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/june-starts-with-blue-whales\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/june-starts-with-blue-whales\/\",\"name\":\"June starts with blue whales - 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