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2024

Teresa T is name of the whale in Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay

Visit Teresa T is name of the whale in Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay

There is a young humpback whale in the harbor at Pillar Point, just north of Half Moon Bay, California right now. Their name is Teresa T and they were first spotted on Thursday afternoon.

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2020

Happy Birthday Sea Lions! (via) Today, June 15th, is Sea Lion birthday—half of all California Sea Lions are born today thanks to clever co-ordinated delayed implantation by Sea Lion females. Natalie has started making nature videos and I’ve been tagging along as her camera-person—this three minute video, shot at Pier 39 in San Francisco, celebrates Sea Lion birthday and explains how it works.

# 15th June 2020, 7:08 pm / natalie-downe, wildlife, youtube

2010

Owls, Otters, Monkeys and Lions Near You.com. It’s not just Owls—we also registered ottersnearyou.com, monkeysnearyou.com and lionsnearyou.com. We’ll probably stop there though, or this could turn in to a very expensive marketing gimmick.

# 19th January 2010, 2:54 pm / lions, monkeys, otters, owls, projects, wildlife, wildlifenearyou

owlsnearyou.com. Nat and I built this over the weekend. It asks for your location, then tells you where your nearest Owl is (using sightings data people have entered on WildlifeNearYou.com). If you’re using Firefox 3.6 or an iPhone it grabs your location using the W3C geolocation API so you don’t have to type anything at all.

# 19th January 2010, 2:45 pm / geolocation, iphone, owls, owlsnearyou, projects, wildlife, wildlifenearyou

2008