Coal Oil Point Reserve

In 2011 and 2012 we continued with the monitoring of the WSP population at Coal Oil Point Reserve as in previous years. We had predator control during most of the breeding seasons and the loss of nests from skunk predation was greatly reduced. However, chick predation from unknown predators was higher than normal. The beach was the narrowest we have observed during the breeding since 2001, and the number of nests lost to tide during 2012 was the highest on record. Hatching success on the mudflats was also the highest on record.