Environment : Notes about your surroundings.

GRUNION: The spawning season continues for grunion, the small silvery fish that make their way onto county beaches to lay and fertilize their eggs. Four-day spawning runs follow a new or full moon. The day and time of their arrival can be predicted within two hours, but there is no telling which beaches they will choose. Broad, quiet beaches, such as those at Sunset Beach, Huntington Beach, parts of Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Doheny State Beach are likely locations.

Monday marks a full moon, and grunion runs are predicted Tuesday (11:25 p.m.-1:25 a.m.), Wednesday (midnight-2 a.m.), Thursday (12:45-2:45 a.m.) and Friday (1:50-3:50 a.m.). No hunting is allowed in April and May, when peak spawning occurs.