The ocean was flat calm today but there was considerable cloudiness and offshore haziness way out on the horizon. The sunlight was quite filtered as it shone through the clouds.
Due to this odd lighting, we often spotted whales initially by locating their backs and heads as they came to the surface to breathe.
AT SAUNDERS REEF:
🔷 2 southbound gray whales – traveling south side by side for a great distance
AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA:
🔷 4 southbound gray whales – two singles and one deuce; we watched the pair swimming very close to each other for quite sometime but then they separated with one moving ahead of the other as they continued south
🔷 84 harbor seals
🔷 2 great blue herons; one on the rocks at the shoreline and one in the pasture with the cows
🔷 4 black oystercatchers
🔷 4 brown pelicans flying north and 2 flying south
🔷 3 American kestrels
🔷 1 red-tailed hawk being harassed by a kestrel
TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE = 32 southbound
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