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Baja Whalewatching season is right around the corner!

Springtime in Baja California is a celebration…

…of whales, dolphins, seabirds, blooming cactus on islands, snorkeling with whale sharks and

so much more wildlife! What whales will you see? WHALES OF BAJA

Picturing yourself there? We have a prime-season tour for you: March 24-April 4, 2018. The itinerary gets you to all the best wildlife opportunities on the Baja California, Mexico peninsula.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You’ll join naturalist Paul Jones and Team Searcher for this 12-day wildlife adventure, enhancing your enjoyment with insights and experience!

As always, we are grateful to our contributing photographers, who provide us use of images from our trips: Nigel Carter, Chris Earley and Lee Morgan.

 

2020-07-15T16:34:29-07:00September 14th, 2017|News|
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2017 Pelagic Birding Trip Sep 4-8 Gallery

Many thanks to the participants of the 2017 Pelagic Trip. Please enjoy the images captured by our Searcher crew photogs, and do consider joining us next year for this fun trip!
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2020-07-15T16:34:29-07:00September 8th, 2017|Trip Reports|
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2017 Sep 4-8 Pelagic Birding Trip Sep 7 Evening Report

 Howdy birders,

This afternoon didn’t show any new birds for us, but we still saw lots in the windy conditions that we had: like jaegers chasing around some tern birds.  Trying to find a calm spot for the night to look for a couple of hours before we get back to the dock in the morning. It’s been a great trip this year.

Capt Aaron and Team Searcher

Long-tailed jaeger @ McGrath

2020-07-15T16:34:29-07:00September 8th, 2017|Trip Reports|
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2017 Sep 4-8 Pelagic Birding Trip Sep 7 Morning Report

Howdy birders,

We have seen several red-billed tropic birds and 4 Cook’s petrels for our morning.  The weather has come up more but the wind has the birds flying!

 

-Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew

 

2017-09-07T15:57:45-07:00September 7th, 2017|News, Trip Reports|
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2017 Sep 4-8 Pelagic Birding Trip Sep 6 Evening Report

 

Howdy birders,

The afternoon was a little slower than the morning. (still nice weather though) We saw a distant flesh-footed shearwater and another Cook’s petrel.  We had some really good looks at a Townsend’s storm petrel today.

-Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew

Townsends storm-petrel @ McGrath

 

2020-07-15T16:34:29-07:00September 7th, 2017|Trip Reports|
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2017 Sep 4-8 Pelagic Birding Trip Sep 6 Morning Report

Howdy birders,

Nice morning here on the open ocean,  with steady viewings of black-footed albatross and we have seen some more Buller’s shearwaters.  Our highlights of the morning were  a Cook’s petrel,  some Baird’s beaked whales and a quick look at a Guadalupe murrelet.  Hoping for more action this afternoon.

-Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew

 

2020-07-15T16:34:30-07:00September 6th, 2017|News, Trip Reports|
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2017 Sep 4-8 Pelagic Birding Trip Sep 5 Evening Report

Howdy birders,

This afternoon was not the best for birding due to complete fog block  but we did see lots of the usual supects in the breaks of fog.  The weather is nice and we’re anchored up for the night and will be headed offshore to a couple of sea mounts tomorrow. Here’s a photo of some of our passengers birding in the bow.

Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew

2020-07-15T16:34:30-07:00September 5th, 2017|Trip Reports|
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2017 Sep 4-8 Pelagic Birding Trip Sep 5 Midday Report

Howdy birders, it was a good morning again with flat calm weather – our big sightings from the morning were a Buller’s shearwater and several  jaegers: (pomarine, parasitic, and long-tailed) and Risso’s and common dolphins, too!

Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew

2017-09-06T16:06:53-07:00September 5th, 2017|Trip Reports|
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2017 Pelagic Birding Trip Sep 4-8 Day One Report

Howdy birders,

Great first day on the ocean: the wind backed off to nothing,  and the birding was great.  It started with the sighting of 2 magnificent frigatebirds in the San Diego Bay, and then several  black-vented shearwaters. We also saw a pair of brown boobies, and a life bird for many this afternoon was a Cassin’s auklet.  In the marine mammal department,  we saw bottlenose dolphin, fin whales, and a few blue whales, one fluking!

Dinner was fantastic, second only to a great day of wildlife sightings!

More tomorrow,

Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew

2017-09-04T20:10:24-07:00September 4th, 2017|News, Trip Reports|
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Pelagic Bird Sightings Jul 5-12, 2017

Hello Searcher friends,

In the past week  we have been seeing some great birds offshore. We are about 85 miles SE of San Diego and 25 miles off the Baja Peninsula.

Here’s what we’ve seen:

Black-footed and Laysan albatross; Cook’s petrel; Pink-footed, black-vented, Buller’s and sooty shearwaters; black and Leach’s storm petrels and Red-billed tropicbird!

Thought you all would like to know!

Capt Art and Team Searcher

2017-07-13T12:03:32-07:00July 13th, 2017|News|
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