Recent Sightings

It was a beautiful day at Gerstle Cove. The waves were huge and exploded upon crashing into the rocks. Visibility was excellent.

🔆 9 humpbacks – one duo and 7 singles

🔆 1 red-tailed hawk – dark morph

🔆 5-7 meadowlarks

🔆 22 brown pelicans flying north

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Today was mostly cloudy creating monochrome visibility where blows, sky, and the ocean are all the same whitish color.

✴️ NO WHALES SEEN AT EITHER THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA OR AT SAUNDERS REEF. ✴️.

AT PAL:

✴️ 10 harbor seals hauled out and 5-6 swimming near the rocks at high tide

✴️ 2 great blue herons

✴️ 1 red-tailed hawk

✴️ 2 American kestrels

✴️ 1 Northern harrier

✴️ 2 black oystercatchers

✴️ 10-12 killdeer

✴️ 23 brown pelicans many diving into the ocean to feed

✴️ 4 flocks of surf scoters flying south

Offshore haziness but decent visibility.

⚛️ NO WHALES SEEN AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA OR AT SAUNDERS REEF ⚛️

AT PAL:

⚛️ At high tide, 6 harbor seals hauled out and resting on the rocks and 5 swimming

⚛️ 7 black oystercatchers

⚛️ 1 great blue heron

⚛️ 12-15 brown pelicans circling the area

⚛️ 3 long strands of surf scoters flying south

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