The first mother-calf pair is sighted on the Oregon coast.
Observers there believe the migration peaked last week.
The gray whale migration is now spread along the entire West Coast. In Alaska, the first grays should be spotted any day, according to Susan Payne in Kodiak. Today's report includes the latest news from our observation posts along the migration trail. But wait, as you'll read below, Laura Gorodezky gives the compass readings of the 53 whales she spotted from an aerial flight over the Santa Barbara Channel. Last Wednesday March 11, I had an opportunity to fly in our Sanctuary airplane to collect data on boat traffic and marine mammals in the Sanctuary.