Howdy birders: First day of our trip here and it’s starting out with calm seas and lots of birds. We have had lots of black vented, sootys, and pink-footed shearwaters, a few phalaropes and some common terns to be mixed in. For the mammals we had a good-sized herd of common dolphin and to end up the day we had several blue whales–a cow-calf pair and then a fluking blue whale in the same area. So we’re headed up to the Channel Islands tonight so wish us luck tomorrow and the weather looks good tomorrow too. Good birding, Capt Aaron
