Capt. Art's Wildlife Blog
Feb 2, 2012
Feb 2, 2012
Laguna San Ignacio census 25 January
There are 41 calves and 73 single gray whales for a total of 114 whales.
Feb 2, 2012
Countdown begins!
Please forgive the lack of recent blogs…we are busy getting the boat and ourselves ready for the start to our Baja Whalewatching tour season. The first tour and the lucky 25 passengers are set to leave on Tuesday, February 7. You can be sure we will be adding posts DAILY from that day on. With [...]
Jan 24, 2012
Memorial Day Wildlife Weekend for 2012
We’re booking spots now on the May 26-28 trip. We’ll be in search of blue whales, herd of dolphin and seabirds galore! Join us for 2.5 days at sea.
Jan 24, 2012
Updated information on the WESTERN gray whale
A satellite-tagged gray whale from the Russian side of the Pacific has crossed over to join the Eastern gray whales on southbound migration. We plan to watch for her (the satellite tag is visible on her back) on our trips into Baja’s San Ignacio Lagoon and in the open ocean. Click here for a map of her migration path: http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/Sakhalin2011
Here is a post from Dr Bruce Mate of Oregon State University:
“More on Varvara, the western gray whale from Russia, now in Baja, CA. Interview with Dr. Bruce Mate: “…too early to know for sure what’s happening. One idea is that some grays near Russia are actually eastern grays that have sought out new territory because there are so many whales along the United States and Canada. Another possibility is that some western Pacific whales routinely cross the ocean but they haven’t been discovered until now”. Stay tuned!”
Jan 21, 2012
Jan 20, 2012
January 19 census in Laguna San Ignacio
As of 19 January, there are 23 cow/calf pairs and 29 single gray whales. That is a total of 75 whales!
Jan 16, 2012
Dolphin-whale interaction study
Passed on from Naturalist Paul Jones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lC3AkGSigrA
Jan 16, 2012
January 14 seabird and whale report by Dave Povey
I took a group of non birding whale watchers offshore Saturday. Black-vented Shearwaters: 300 plus. Most in smaller groups of 10 or less and scattered all the way from the outer edge of the kelp line to the innner edge of the “Nine Mile Bank.” Bonaparte’s Gulls: 6 . Common Murre: 1 just outside the [...]
Jan 9, 2012
What gray whale calves do in Laguna San Ignacio
Video by Steve Lamb
Dec 31, 2011
6-8 gray whales in San Ignacio Lagoon
The early migration has reached at least one of the Baja birthing/mating lagoons. Our colleagues in Laguna San Ignacio report sighting between 6-8 whales today.
Dec 30, 2011
Good article about the surprising southbound gray whale numbers
Almost 200 gray whales have been counted by the LA-area volunteers since December 1. Surely a record will be set for these early “birds” on their way to Baja California.
California.http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/29/early-whale-migration-spurs-excitement/
Dec 24, 2011
Record month for gray whales!
It’s turning out to be a record southbound migration already. Volunteers have counted 85 whales passing by the LA area since December 1.
Dec 15, 2011
December 14 and the grays are coming
This is the report from the ACS census team in LA: As of 14-DEC 2011 Southbound Today —————- 7 Northbound Today —————- 0 Total Whales Today ————– 7 Southbound Calves Today ——— 0 Northbound Calves Today ——— 0 Season to Date (since 1 Dec 2011) Southbound ——————— 19 Northbound ———————- 2 Total ————————– 21 [...]
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Nov 23, 2011
Pelagic Birding Trip Report Sept. 5-9, 2011
(San Diego) The 95-foot live-aboard Searcher departed San Diego’s Fisherman’s Landing on a sunny, warm Labor Day afternoon, bound for a 5-day pelagic expedition through the Channel Islands, over deep water canyons and along the continental shelf-edge. We headed to the Nine Mile Bank and worked our way slowly north in a zigzag fashion, following the life zones as we found them until the sunset as we were west of Oceanside.
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Nov 23, 2011
New 2012 trips!
We’ve added our 2.5 day Memorial Day Weekend trip for May 26-28 and our 5-day Pelagic Birding trip for Sep 3-7 onto the web site. Ready for bookings!
