Grooming made easy with a long beak: Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) on the roof of Sea Landing in Santa Barbara Harbor, home of the Condor Express.
A close look at a a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) with long white pectoral fins. The frosty, white scar tissue across the dorsal fin may suggest this is a male as the scars may have been caused during fights for breeding privileges.
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) with a circumferential entanglement scar. We call this whale "Rope," because we first saw her in the mid-2000's with rope from commercial fishing gear wrapped around her body.