Happy Earth Day, everyone!

Just to further demonstrate that our world is big and full of surprises, a Ring-necked Pheasant strolled behind us in the Coal Oil Point Reserve.

In front of us, we saw two more northbound Gray whale Cow/calf pairs. One was leisurely while the other pair looked like it was late for a very important date.

We also saw Bottlenose dolphin calves, but Common and Pacific White-sided dolphins did not come within our range today. Our Harbor seals were resting in the kelp on this Santa Barbara Earth Day.

Gray whales northbound (all) 4 | Calves 2 — 2015 Count 1057 | 068

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