No Whale News Is Good Whale News

ht_whale_070529_ms.jpgMarine biologists, nature spiritualists, and media hounds are concerned after this morning's reports from a fishing boat that they saw the body of a dead whale floating just outside the Golden Gate Bridge around 5:30 a.m. Could it be Delta or Dawn?

The authorities noted that a number of other dead whales have beached in the area recently, so it might not necessarily be our directionally-challenged cetacean friends -- and searches this morning have turned up nothing so far.

The fishermen were pretty sure they'd seen something, though, so everyone's still looking. The authorities also note that they haven't seen flocks of seagulls ("I Ran.... I ran so far away") circling, which you'd expect if something that large had died. Fingers crossed!

Update: 4:00 p.m. They found the whale, It wasn't Delta or Dawn.

Picture from the Sacramento River by Sarah Wilkin, from the NOAA Fisheries Service..

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Maybe it was Jan Wahl. Oh! That was mean.

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