Whale, whale, whale...what have we got here? Actual good news in 2016! Say it ain't so!

Dr. Rachel Dubroff told the New York Times that for two years in a row, she's been seeing a humpback whale swimming in the Hudson River from the window of her apartment on Riverside Boulevard and 63rd Street in Manhattan. She didn't believe her eyes for two years...until Saturday, when she spotted the whale, and then proceeded to see it in the same spot on Sunday.

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"The whales found this spot as a feeding ground," Paul Sieswerda, president of Gotham Whale—an organization that "tracks marine life around the city"—told the Times. "Rather than go all the way up to Massachusetts and Maine, they've found a good feeding ground right here in New York."

The whale, who Sieswerda nicknamed "Gotham," reportedly "seems to be healthy and has been exhibiting a behavior called lunge feeding, in which a whale swims forward, mouth agape, as it captures thousands of gallons of water."

However, though the whale is healthy, it could be in danger due to boat traffic, so the Coast Guard has requested boaters and fisherman to slow down.

The good thing about the whale spotting, according to president of marine life organization Riverhead Foundation Chuck Bowman, is that this is a sign that conservation efforts are working:

"The good thing was 30 years ago you'd see maybe one whale off of Long Island a season. Now you see them all the time due to conservation efforts. [But] you get a bigger population and you get a greater chance of things like this happening."

(H/T New York Times)