The weather pattern of the last few days has shown unusual regularity. A morning offshore breeze from the east shifts to south or southwest in the afternoon. Such were the winds today. Never strong enough to create whitecaps, or induce seabirds to fly in numbers. Dawn broke with a not-so-common-at-the-point Common Goldeneye and twice as many California Gulls than Western Gulls flying over the water. Loon Hour disappointed with the number of loons–79 Pacific and 13 Red-throated–but delivered...

Weather: At Pt. Pinos, the wind had east in it all day, but fortunately, the wind was not too severe. Swell was moderate, visibility was quite good, and it was sunny. At the outer buoy, the wind at dawn was NNE ~12 knots. It fell to ~8 knots at noon, switched to NW ~8 knots at 1300. Pressure continues to be high: 30.15 at dawn, 30.07 at sunset. The monotony of the weather looks like it will continue until the count season ends on December 15th. Birds: I think my favorite birds today were a...

Weather: The morning started with brisk east winds that settled and then went light west for the last couple hours of the count. Visibility was good, swell was moderate, skies were clear. Birds: I think the fan favorite today was the afternoon Ancient Murrelet flight. We had 67 go by during the 2PM-3PM hour, and tallied 141 over the day's course. We also had a nice large alcid push during the 0800-0900 hour; daily totals: 819 Rhinoceros Auklet, 2320 Common Murres, 1 Cassin's Auklet, 1 Ancient...