Vancouver photographer captures orca making a splash in Burrard Inlet | 24CA News
A wildlife photographer searching for birds off the shores of Vancouver’s Stanley Park has as an alternative captured an unforgettable picture of a unique animal in flight: an orca leaping from Burrard Inlet.
Frank Lin says he was main a gaggle of volunteers conducting a water chook survey for the Stanley Park Ecology Society final week when a workforce member noticed a whale off Brockton Point.
Lin and the others rushed to the waterfront and photographed a pod of 5 orcas breaching the floor repeatedly.
Lin, 28, has had an Instagram account devoted to wildlife pictures since 2016 however says he is by no means seen orcas breaching in Vancouver’s city waters earlier than.
Andrew Trites, director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit of the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Oceans and Fisheries, says the whales seen by Lin had been transient orcas and he believes their look close to Vancouver will grow to be extra frequent.
Trites says the previous couple of a long time have seen an increase within the inhabitants of harbour seals, a lot of which collect in waters close to Stanley Park.
He says harbour seals are one of many transient orcas’ prime meals sources and pods are more and more drawn to the seals in Vancouver’s waters.
Trites says boaters must “keep their eyes open” to avoid a catastrophic collision as orcas appear more frequently in crowded waterways.
Lin says his team was “shocked” by the Feb. 10 sighting, and he informed them they had been “privileged to see this chance.”
