Killer whales amaze Seattle onlookers with a rarely seen bird hunt

SEATTLE (AP) — A pod of orcas swam adjacent to enactment and amazed onlookers successful Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the uncommon show of the apex predators hunting a bird.

The pod of Bigg’s slayer whales visited Elliott Bay and were seemingly connected a hunt underwater conscionable disconnected Seattle’s maritime concern docks. The pod exited the bay adjacent to the West Seattle vicinity crossed from downtown, wherever radical were waiting to drawback show of them.

Kersti Muul, who runs a WhatsApp whale alert strategy for the Seattle country called “ Salish Wildlife Watch,” recorded footage arsenic the whales appeared conscionable beneath a lookout point.

One of the whales was seen capturing a vertebrate and taking it beneath water, sparking gasps from onlookers.

It was "a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition for West Seattle. Not lone successful the whales' proximity, but besides witnessing a seldom seen behaviour - chasing and catching the grebe," Muul said successful a text. “My eyes darted backmost and distant taking successful the community’s reactions and the orcas close beneath our feet, disposable underwater.”

Bigg’s slayer whales are orcas that usually prey connected marine mammals specified arsenic oversea lions oregon porpoises. They sojourn the waters disconnected Seattle occasionally and some dedicated and casual whale watchers shadiness them arsenic they explore. The pod sighted Sunday has ventured into the Seattle waters respective times implicit the past month.

“It’s decidedly a bonding acquisition for the community,” Muul said. "And my anticipation is ever that these moments animate awe and consciousness of the municipality wildlife successful our backyards.”