While many Cape Cod children were engaged in Easter festivities last Sunday, another youngster seemed to be enjoying the holiday in the waters of Cape Cod Bay. Researchers from the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown took to the skies that day and spotted the first North Atlantic right whale calf of the 2016 season, along with several more of the marine mammals, which are considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. According

Learn all about the herring and its annual springtime ritual with Barbara Brennessel, author of “The Alewives’ Tale: The Life History and Ecology of River Herring in the Northeast,” in Provincetown on March 30. Brennessel’s program, “The Life History and Ecology of the River Herring in the Northeast” is presented by the The Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, and will be held at Napi’s Restaurant, 7 Freeman St., at 7 p.m. Click here for a “Shore Lore” column that I wr