Recent Sightings

Today the ocean was flat calm and visibility was excellent.

AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA:

🔺 NO WHALES SEEN

🔺 7-8 harbor seals bottling and swimming around the rocks at their haul out sites at high tide

🔺 1 black oystercatcher

🔺 1 red-tailed hawk

🔺 1 northern harrier

🔺 3 American kestrels

NO WHALES SEEN AT SAUNDERS REEF

🔺 12-15 brown pelicans diving into the water to feed

After several days of fog, rain, strong wind, and huge waves, we finally had a sunny day with good visibility. The ocean was still quite turbulent and there were large whitecaps.

AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA:

💠 NO WHALES SEEN

💠 6-8 harbor seals bottling and swimming around the rocks at their haul out sites
at high tide

💠 4 black oystercatchers

💠 4 black turnstones

💠 2 great blue herons

💠 1 red-tailed hawk

💠 6-7 killdeer

💠 2 American kestrels

AT SAUNDERS REEF:

💠 1 humpback traveling south

WE INVITE YOU ALL TO WATCH THE AMAZING SPEAKERS IN THIS YEAR’S SYMPOSIUM. SIMPLY GO TO KGUA.ORG AND CLICK ON THE YOUTUBE ICON IN THE UPPER LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. YOU WILL BE TREATED TO SIX OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS AND TOPICS.

Out host this year will be Shari Goforth and our producer is Seve Cardosi.

On this cloudy day with a few breaks of sunshine, visibility was quite good.

AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA, WE OBSERVED:

🔆 1 humpback

🔆 66 harbor seals

🔆 1 American kestrel

🔆 1 great blue heron

🔆 1 red-tailed hawk

🌐 NO WHALES SEEN AT SAUNDERS REEF

Today was windy and hazy and there were many whitecaps on the ocean

At the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula, we observed:

🟩 1 humpback

🟩 76 harbor seals

🟩 2 American kestrels

🟩 1 red-tailed hawk

🟦 No whales seen at Saunders Reef