Final exams are over so I will be posting more until I am out for winter break December 20th to January 3rd

Weather

• Visibility: 15 Miles
• Wind: From 0 – 40 SE over the last few days
• Sky: Overcast
• Water: from calm to huge waves during that last storm

Boats/Visitors

• Not a lot of visitors lately
• There were a couple of sailboats yesterday and a few ecotours, but not many

Maintenance

• Running the generator more lately as is there is less sunlight
• Still haven’t been able to pressure wash but the parts should be in when I get back from break and I can try to make the buildings white again

Ecological

• Fewer sea lions than last week
• Chunk is still the alpha but there are 3 other males on the island of varying sizes smaller than Chunk
• There is currently 1 female elephant seal
• a few green wing teal ducks took shelter here when it was storming
• have spotted a neck banded sea lion, but no way to tell if he will still be here by the time I can people out here to help him

Census

• California Sea Lions – 213
• Steller Sea Lions – 192
• Harbour Seal – 35
• Elephant Seal – 4 male, 1 female
• Cormorants – 207
• Gulls – 233
• Fox Sparrows – 12
• Canada Geese – 21
• Black Turnstones – 38
• Eagle – 8
• Raven – 1
• Snow Bunting – 1
• Oyster Catchers – 12
• Harlequin Ducks – 10
• Green Wing Teal – 6