Provincetown's Center for Coastal Studies reports a crew dispatched to Stellwagen Bank Saturday was unable to find Enso the humpback whale - reported by people on a whale-watching cruise on Saturday to have fishing line wrapped around its tail - but says they are not concerned about the whale's health immediately. Read more.
Hope Cole reports that on a whale-watch cruise to Stellwagen Bank, people spotted a humpback whale in distress - rope from some fishing gear wrapped around its tail. Read more.
Mark Garfinkle has been chronicling the breaching exploits of Shambhu, the juvenile humpback, who has been enjoying the outer harbor, between Deer Island and Castle Island, the past few days.
One day after it dismissed a lawsuit by some Nantucket residents against wind turbines now being installed south of their island, a federal appeals court dismissed a similar lawsuit by the president of a solar-energy company who has a summer home there. Read more.
A federal appeals court yesterday tossed a lawsuit by a group of Nantucket residents who say the wind turbines now being built off their island will kill endangered right whales. Read more.
Paul Nutting Jr. watched one of those humpback whales that have been cruising the coast of late having some fun in Boston Harbor this morning - like right off Castle Island: Read more.
Spending some time down in Plymouth in recent days, Mary Ellen made a point of getting down to Manomet early each morning to watch the humpback whales enjoying a breakfast buffet just offshore.
WCVB shows video of a whale feeding and breaching near Deer Island yesterday.
State Police report on the 25-foot-long carcass. The New England Aquarium reports the carcass is that of a whale that had earlier washed up on a beach in Cohasset. This sort of wandering-whale-carcass thing has happened before.
A juvenile humpback whale was seen breaching off of Spectacle Island earlier today pic.twitter.com/iqp1Bdak50
— MassDCR (@MassDCR) August 28, 2018
Good Morning Gloucester has some photos of feeding right whales this morning.
Mark Garfinkel took a number of photos of a right whale in Nahant Bay this week. And a seal.
The Ocean Alliance of Gloucester and Olin College of Needham have teamed up on a drone-based tool for taking vital signs from whales without shooting them with darts from loud motorboats. Read more.
WHDH reports on the possibly injured humpback whale that started to swim into the harbor until it was gently ushered back out to sea.
Last fall:
Whale carcass floated from Boston to Rockport.
Good Morning Gloucester has numerous exclusive photos, should you have the desire to see a dead whale on rocks; wonders if somehow it's the same whale body that briefly washed ashore on a couple of islands in Boston Harbor. WBZ reports that yes, that is the former Boston Harbor whale carcass.
Noah Sachs forwards a link to these photos, taken by his friend Lars, who was out on the harbor today and took a series of shots as they got closer to that poor dead whale that's still just lying on the shore of a harbor island.
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