I spotted three individual island foxes while camping on San Miguel Island which made for a very special and all too brief trip to Channel Islands National Park. This is my fourth subspecies sighting of island foxes and the most elusive of the northern Channel Islands subspecies according to fox biologists I've interacted with. I'm able to tell them apart by their ears and one of them being collared, the tracking being funded by everyone's support of Friends of the Island Fox. I encountered another on a trail in the dark and was unable to capture a photo, though it may have been one of these three. I also caught nocturnal images and video with my camera trap placed near our tent which may or may not be a different fox, as the ear outlines aren't clear.
Song sparrow (Melospiza melodia)
A fox biologist held this southern alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata) briefly for us to admire.
Northern elephant seal cow (Mirounga angustirostris)
Common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) off of Santa Cruz Island