Weather: Dawn started with fog AND a stiff northeast wind - two conditions that don't usually cohabitate at Pt. Pinos. After a few hours the fog burned off and the wind dropped, but if you look at our loon numbers for the day, it's pretty evident that the damage was done... fog aside, morning visibility was poor: there has been more distortion on the "outer line" area of the horizon than I remember there being in my previous seasons. Is it related to the ongoing high pressure

Checking in with the morning crew as I arrived a little before noon, everyone was bundled up in puffy jackets with hoods pulled tight. Gloves were donned and rainpants were deflecting the wind. The morning crew had been treated to a chilly morning with a southeast wind - the opposite of what we want for a Seawatch shift! A cold wind blowing birds further away or keeping them down on the water, doesn't necessarily set one up for high counts or rare species. But spirits were ch

Weather: At dawn, the wind had a fair amount of east in it, but it was calmer than it's been for the last three mornings. The wind dropped off pretty quickly, and we started feeling it on the west side of our faces by early afternoon. By evening winds were light, but west. Swell started out minimal but built over the course of the day; visibility was good until the winds switched to west and then it got a little hazy. At the outer buoy, the wind at dawn was NNE at ~8 knots. I