Hello, my name is… well, we don’t actually know yet! Each spring, Puget Sound is visited by a group of roughly a dozen gray whales on migration from Mexico to Alaska, known as Sounders, who swing by for a ghost shrimp buffet. Typically, we see the same individuals return year after year, and we can identify them by their distinctive markings. On occasion, though, we are visited by a whale not previously seen in our waters — that is the case this year! We’re always excited to support scientific research by submitting sighting data and photographs to organizations such as Cascadia Research, which helps identify newly spotted individuals in our area. Stay tuned to our social media channels — when we have an identity update on this individual that we’ve seen on 02/25, 02/27, and 03/06, we’ll be sure to let you know!
