Capitola police want to know who left a red parrot in the Trader Joe's parking lot last week.

The man pulled up in a brown van to the parking lot on Clares St. in the afternoon on May 15, and put the Macaw on top of the shopping carts in front of the store, then drove away.

Witnesses called 911 and police were able to get it to come to one with a large glove.  The bird was taken to Native Animal Rescue on 17th Ave in Live Oak.   Later, the bird was transfered to For the Birds, a San Jose avian veterinary hospital.

The red parrot was not in good shape.  Experts said it was thin, dirty and only about 40 years old, or mid-life.

It also had signs of abuse, scrapes on its face and feet and gum stuck in its feathers.

A man says he survived an uncomfortably close encounter with a great white shark off the Northern California coast that left 18-inch bite marks on his kayak.

Forty-five-year-old Adam Coca says he was fishing in his 13-foot kayak near Pigeon Point on Saturday when something bumped his boat and flipped him over.

The Pinole man says he was halfway in the water when he saw a great white shark chewing on the kayak. He climbed atop the overturned boat and held on as the shark continued biting the nose.

Coca says the shark then got tangled in the paddle leash and bit through it before swimming away.

Coca sent a distress call to nearby kayakers, who helped him paddle to shore.

Photos of his kayak show it covered in bite marks, with some tooth holes in the bow. Coca was unhurt.

The Fish and Game Commission adopted ocean salmon sport fishing regulations that allow for a limited season in 2010 today.

Here's a link to a map of what you can catch in the Monterey Bay area.