Bird Rock by Ewingjr98
Bird Rock off Pebble Beach is home to three kinds of cormorants and a bunch of those wacky California sea lions. The cormorants nest here as they do on the end of the Coast Guard Wharf in Monterey.The blue-throated Brandt's cormorants are one of the cormorant breeds that come to Bird rock in the spring to nest. These cormorants live along the west coast from Alaska to southern California with the greatest concentrations around Vancouver, San Francisco, and Monterey. These birds feed by swimming under water to depths of 40 feet to catch small fish. It is said the sea gulls are a major threat to rob the nests, so the birds nest in pairs with one always watching the next.
Bird Rock is also the nickname of the Spyglass Par-3 hole near the rock of the same name.
Bird Rock is hiking distance from Asilomar Beach in Pacific Grove, or you can pay the $9 and cruise along 17 Mile Drive. This is easily one of the busiest spots of the drive, up there with the Lone Cypress and the Pebble Beach Lodge.
