Orcas in Tillamook Bay – 04/25/25 – Video

The text came from Pionier photographer/videoographer Don Backman, “Orcas in Tillamook Bay” … I wrote back, photos/video or it didn't happen. He wrote back an SMS: “I don't have my camera …” What? !! That will never happen again, I'll assure you. The whales of Orca whales was on Friday, April 25, 2025, on the south side of Tillamook Bay entrance -A friend of Don's has a cell phone video video. It shows a boat near the southern walk and the distinctive Orca killer whale fins, some of them. Many thanks to Pioneer readers and for Jamison Johnson (the boat in the original video) for sharing his videos. The group identified the Oregon Coast Killer Whale Monitoring program. See the information below and the videos shared on the social media of the pioneer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgaazypwkpm

Josh Mcinnes, Oregon Coast Killer Whale monitoring program
Tillamook Bay, Oregon (2025-04-25):
Hello @Everyone,
A big thank you to everyone in the Tillamook Bay Area who helped the group of killer whales, which had been watched yesterday, in persecution and photography. I received photos and video clips from Jamison Johnson with Big Johnson's Guide service and was able to identify six of the whales as famous T050 or Coos Bay Killers!
This temporary (mammal) family is led by the Matriarch T050 (born 1980). She has an adult daughter T050B (born 1999), which has two descendants T050B1 (born 2012) and T050B2 (born 2020). T050 is also the mother of T050D (born 2011) and T050E (born 2013).
The T050s are a frequently occurring transient group off the Oregon coast and appear almost every spring during the doll period of the port seal to feed on existing seal worlds. You usually travel with T051, a lonely adult man who is also a seasonal visitor on the coast. Perhaps you remember that the T050s in 2023 were involved in a successful hunt of a gray whale calf in front of Cape Foulwether.