Recent Sightings

Excellent visibility to start the day but then fog rolled in at the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula.

🔶 NO WHALES SEEN 🔶

🔶 7 harbor seals swimming around the haul out at high tide

🔶 1 Northern harrier

🔶 8 – 10 meadowlarks

🔶 1 American kestrel

When the fog rolled in at PAL, we headed south to Saunders Reef where visibility was good……for a while until the fog caught us with us.

🔶 NO WHALES SEEN AT SAUNDERS REEF 🔶

We were challenged today by intermittent fog rolling in reducing visibility to zero at both the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula as well as at Saunders Reef. At times, we had decent visibility but it didn’t last very long.

AT PAL:

🟢 NO WHALES SEEN 🟢

🔵 9 harbor seals – high tide and high surf

🟢 1 American kestrel

🔵 12 meadowlarks

AT SAUNDERS REEF:

🟢 NO WHALES SEEN 🟢

🔵 5 brown pelicans flying south

Observations today were at Gerstle Cove in Salt Point State Park. Conditions were ideal for spotting whales with a calm ocean, no wind, and visibility clear to the horizon.

💠♦️NO WHALES SEEN 💠♦️

💠 No harbor seals seen due to high tide

💠 8 sea lions swimming south

💠 1 great egret

💠 1 Northern harrier

💠 1 osprey carrying a fish

💠 3 flocks of meadowlarks with approximately 15-20 in each flock

💠 163 brown pelicans flying north and several diving for fish

Today conditions were positively ideal for whale watching. We had excellent visibility all the way to the horizon. Calm ocean, no wind.

AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA, WE OBSERVED:

🔷🔶 OUR FIRST TWO SOUTHBOUND GRAY WHALES OF THE SEASON‼️ 🔷🔶 – two singles about 2-3 miles offshore traveling steadily southbound

🔷 70 harbor seals

🔷 2 black oystercatchers

🔷 32 brown pelicans flying north

🔷 1 red-tailed hawk

🔷 approximately 20 meadowlarks

🔶 NO WHALES SEEN AT SAUNDERS REEF 🔶

🔷 14 brown pelicans flying north

🔷 approximately 11 meadowlarks

Excellent visibity at the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula. Sunny, light wind, 2-3 foot waves, some whitecaps.

NO WHALES SEEN

💠 82 harbor seals

💠 4 black oystercatchers

💠 1 red-tailed hawk perched upon his or her favorite utility pole on
Lighthouse Road

💠 1 male Northern harrier – the “gray ghost”

💠 20 brown pelicans circling around the Lighthouse; 28 flying north

♦️ NO WHALES SEEN AT SAUNDERS REEF

♦️ 11 brown pelicans flying north and 2 diving into the ocean to feed