They’re heading south and the good volunteers with American Cetacean Society in Los Angeles, California are watching and counting them every day.
Check here for the Daily Gray Whale Census to keep updated on how many gray whales are streaming south,
Come aboard with us and meet the gray whales in Laguna San Ignacio!
on their way to Baja California and the calving lagoons, including Laguna San Ignacio.
We’re awaiting news of many blessed events–hundreds of gray whale babies are due to make their appearances over the next few weeks/months! We’ll see mothers and their newborns along the southbound migration as well as in one of our favorite places on earth: Laguna San Ignacio!
Join us in 2018 and we’ll take you there, but for now you can enjoy seeing them here: GRAY WHALE BABIES IN LAGUNA SAN IGNACIO
Many thanks to Chris Earley and Robyn Carmel for use of their lovely underwater footage!
You won’t want to miss this informative and fun webinar about a Baja Whales and Wildlife expedition aboard Searcher! Hosted by Worldwide Quest in Toronto and Chris Earley (a Baja expedition leader in 2019 aboard Searcher), this will be an exciting opportunity to see photos, discuss the perfect itinerary for wildlife in Baja, and get your questions answered by an expert. It’s a great way to plan your Baja adventure right from your office or home computer.
Elephant seals @ Chris Earley
Join us! Check for the exact time in your time zone and register by clicking here: WEBINAR
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.
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
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
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
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
Check our new pages with photos on “Birds of Baja” and “Whales of Baja” for passengers to review the 
numerous species we regularly see on our 12-day Baja Whalewatching Tours.
Click on the images below to start learning!
Join our 12-day tour to whalewatch for up to a dozen different species: gray, blue, fin, sperm, and humpback whales, and several kinds of dolphins along the Pacific side of Baja California, plus an extension into the rich 
waters of the Sea of Cortez where even more whales and wildlife are abundant.
Explore offshore islands for birding and photography, and snorkel with tropical reef fish.
There are currently still spots available on the tour departing March 24, 2018! To learn more about the trip’s itinerary and detail for booking, visit https://www.bajawhale.com/whale/baja-whalewatching-tour-5/.
We’ve put together a Birds of Baja gallery to give you a taste of what you might see on your adventure with Searcher Natural History Tours. 
