I heard about the Orca on the MOC group chat thanks to fellow volunteer Orsi. I got to see them from Findochty church where the WDC box is and I used their telescope and binoculars as I've completed my Shorewatch training. They were coming from Cullen area and they hung around just north off bow fiddle rock. There was one massive bull, 2 others I am assuming were females and 2 calfs. 

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This was my first spotting of an orca pod. It was so immense words cannot describe, I had goosebumps.

Watching them breach the water, no tail flicks, however many breaches out of the water. They came up far enough to see the white of all 3 of the adult bellies. The calfs were harder to see as they were further out however with the telescope you could see them quite clearly. I even witnessed them doing their bubble circle to trap fish or a seal that I've only ever read about or seen in nature programmes. That in itself was incredible. I know they were doing this as you could see the air coming up to the water top which is how I saw it was in a circular pattern, then the Orca coming up for more air before diving back down.

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I was lucky enough that they were hanging around rather than passing by so I managed to watch them for over an hour! It was so immense and just utterly magical. The bull was so massive he was huge, you could see his massive dorsal fin with the naked eye. He was very impressive, also due to the bulls fin being so large you could pin point where the pod were with more ease. This is something that I will never take for granted. It was just so exciting and immensely incredible to witness not just the Orca pod but them doing their bubble circle trap. Oh my, that was just, I couldn't believe my eyes. There were around 20 people watching this pod from the church and also more down at the beach. Word spreads fast in a small village. However thanks to Orsi for posting it in the MOC chat otherwise I'd never of had this incredible experience. 

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