NYC0015 and NYC004 Humpback Whales off Long Beach and Far Rockaway.
Great day, water was calm, and the bait fish were closer to the shore and in massive bait balls everywhere! We witnessed Humpback Whales Lunge and surface feeding along with a few well-choreographed tandem breaches which were awesome to see. We ran across two whales we know as NYC0004 (BIG Fluke) and NYC0015 the Calf (small Fluke with cut) off Far Rockaway and Silver Point NY. Whales teach their young all they need to survive and #04 was teaching #15 this day. Every time I have seen #15 it was with a whale cataloged with GW as NYC0014. But today #04 was giving #15 a life lesson or two. There were other whales in the area, NYC0014 may have one of them but was not identified. I know #04 to be very mobile when feeding, he changes direction often doesn't lunge feed to much but seems to like to surface feed. This whale is everywhere, where ever you think #04 will surface next, it is never in that spot. Today whatever #4 did #15 did also. They broke apart after the big breaches and fed on their own for almost a half an hour. Again, great day had by all.
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