03/08/2022 Tuesday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Lesley and Team R&B💕  Lesley's Ka'ena Updates are part 2 and 3. I encourage you to read and look at all the photos she sent in. Honestly when was the last time you saw a yellow parakeet at Ka'ena Point?

Team R&B decided to have their breakfast at the beach. Once they finished off they went to explore. At first they didn't see anything, but soon enough they saw some movement in the water. There was RL20 Kalua just hauling up on the rocks.

They headed off to another area and didn't see any seals on the rocks. They did see a seal swimming

slowly in the water, and they ID'd RH32 Kaale.

He was in the water with two snorkelers got really close to him and he wasn't happy. RH32 disappeared ( personally I wish he just bit them). This of course upset Team R&B.

Later in the day they went back to recheck the area and saw a seal entering the outfall. It was Kaale once again. He left the outfall soon after and they didn't see him for the rest of the day.

Oh the things they see. Team R&B saw some cool birds today and had to share some happy photos. There was a swan sitting on a nest. At one point she stood up and they saw the egg, and mama swan pulled some leaves, maybe making the nest bigger.

They also saw a pair of ducks.

At another west side location they spotted a seal up on high rocks. They could see it was snoozing and its male belly was visible along with some markers. They knew it was RL08 alone resting.

The lastly but not least near the coral patch was the little guy RP84 Pe'ekai. He was rolling in the coral, right, then left tossed his hind flippers and then went to the shallows. Not only is he cute but he is adorable to watch. 

RL20 Kalua

RH32 Kaale

RL08

RP84 Pe'ekai

Duckies

Swan 

03/08/2022 (PART 2) Lesley's Weekly Ka'ena Point Report #1

I just counted the list of individuals for this report : 14 !! add whales, LAAL, BFAL, a yellow Parrakeet, Koleas and our very special "LADY" our big turtle.

We have a new girl in town, it took many days checking the database to find that she was IDed in Kauai last year and there's barely any documentation on her. I was lucky to see her on 3 different occasions so now she has been documented on ALL sides. Our girl is R604 nicknamed Kiane.

She was frequently documented with R330 Squinty and once with R3CX Nalu and RJ40 'E'ena.

RG40 Holokai has been up and down the coast sometimes solo sometimes tagging along Squinty.

RL42 Leia showed up today and is looking VERY healthy, just as her younger sister RN58

Luana

KG54 Huaka'i is also back in the hood and has definitely put on some fat 

RG28 Lefty came by for a visit at the point possibly looking for his friends R3CX Nalu and R3CU

RW02 PVKauai and RO40 Ka'ena come and go as usual. Ka'ena seems to have become a "loner" preferring to stay away from action

RL98 Lina has been hauling out daily at midmoring.

"LADY" showed up again, it's always nice to see her. She usually shows up in January and I was getting worried.

Another fun day was last Saturday when a yellow bird flew in from the sea over our heads out at the point. Straight away I said "it's a parrot !", turns out it was a Lutino Ringneck Parrakeet. Females are yellow with red beak. There was NO way I could try to get it with 3 seals on the beach. The bird actually flew down from some rocks on to the beach, got wet by a wave and walked up the sand. Seals never noticed him. Later in the evening I found a post on social media of a missing parrakeet.   More soon 

03/08/2022 (PART 3) Lesley's Weekly Ka'ena Point Report (CONT.)