NEWS
An beginner wildlife photographer says taking pictures a pod of orcas teaching a teen how to hunt used to be “improbable”.
Graham Campbell captured video and photographs of the pod as they hunt, breach (when the whale launches their body out of the water) and take into story hop (when they pop their heads up out of the water to look their surroundings) in some unspecified time in the future of the afternoon.
His footage, captured off Hoxa Head in South Ronaldsay, Orkney, caught the pod educate a calf how to secure seabirds.
Mr Campbell told BBC Scotland: “It used to be an improbable afternoon staring at this pod of orcas. I on an everyday basis exit making an are trying for sightings with some chums in some unspecified time in the future of my spare time.”
He moved put following a tip off and then realised the pod used to be right now below him in the water.
He added: “It used to be one in all our regular pods identified because the 64s pod, I spent the next three hours monitoring them spherical the fly as they hunted, breaching various events and take into story hopping in the sunshine.
“They beget been hunting the seabirds and I watched them rob guillemots, cormorants and shags.”
Mr Campbell mentioned where he lived in Orkney meant he’d viewed orcas a lot, nonetheless that it used to be ceaselessly improbable and every sighting used to be assorted.
“On the total, they hunt seals nonetheless right here is the first time I’ve managed to utilize a few hours staring at them hunt seabirds and managed to fable it,” he added.
