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12/10/2025

❤️ The incredible resiliency of wildlife. This fellow has learned how to adapt and is living his best life. Hopefully, he will be allowed to continue. Thank you, Kirk Price, for sharing your amazing footage.

12/10/2025

💙 Awww... Great News! Spotted in Puget Sound. Thank you, Orca Conservancy, for sharing.

NEW CALF SPOTTED IN K POD!!!

This afternoon we were viewing K Pod traveling southbound from Shoreline, WA when we spotted a very small and very orange calf amongst the K14s with the K12s. We still need to go through our footage, but it appeared that the calf was primarily traveling with K36 Yoda.

From our perspective on shore, the calf appears to look robust and energetic. We observed it surfacing often on its own and zipping around the large group of Ks.

We’ll be sharing our documentation with the (CWR) for their census and official records. CWR will assign the calf an alphanumeric ID—likely K47, as K46 was used in the historical catalog. Per their protocol, CWR will also confirm the calf’s maternity after it has been observed in three separate encounters.

We are very excited about this discovery, since this this is the first calf born into K Pod since K45 Prosper in 2022.

Photo taken by Orca Conservancy staff Tamara Kelley

12/09/2025

❤️ The Alaska Wild Berry Products crew is amazing! You still have time to order sweet 'Made in Alaska' gifts at https://akwildberry.com/ Our recent Sweepstakes winners are loving their gift packages. Show us your prize in the comments below.

12/09/2025

🎅 I'm not old I'm vintage!😂 🎄Only 16 days till Christmas!

🎄Only 16 days till Christmas! Growing up we gave my dad a Norelco every year. He was always so appreciative even with a drawer full of them. 😂

12/09/2025

🌞 Yippee! The wind is over the power is on and the sun is shining. It's a beautiful day at Inspiration Ridge Preserve in Homer, Alaska. Watch live daily at https://hdontap.com/stream/394029/inspiration-ridge-homer-alaska-live-webcam/

12/09/2025

😂🐻 We never get tired of this!

12/09/2025

Sigh... One more time! National Weather Service meteorologist Carson Jones said the hurricane-force gusts were caused by a clash of weather systems — a cool high pressure system over the Copper River Basin meeting a warmer low pressure system from the Gulf of Alaska. “Essentially it creates kind of this siphon effect, where the really cold, dense air in the Copper River Basin is funneled and channeled down the mountainous valley, and it accelerates in what's called a catamatic wind, and it just it sits there until the pattern changes and gusts,” Jones said. “We are seeing anywhere from 40 to 100 miles an hour throughout the valley over the weekend and even this morning as well.”
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District closed most schools Monday due to high winds and power outages, and most schools will be closed Tuesday as well. The weather service also extended its high wind warning to Tuesday.

Schools in the area were closed Monday and dozens of residents cycled through an emergency shelter set up by the American Red Cross.