Elephant seal pups:4 swimming at night. Spending lots of time on the boat ramp testing the water at night and day .
Eco guardian notes: This morning another new female elephant seal arrived during the night. We now have five females four pups. This new animal has two green tags E103 E135. She has returned to molt on the island for the last 4 years. Welcome home.
Ecological Notes: This morning, I was visited by a sea otter on the south east side of island. He was feeding on a sea urchin. The new elephant seal that arrived yesterday is female and now the largest one on the island. This time of year, the elephant seals come here to molt. The four pups continue to test the waters every night and sleep all day. Canada geese are nesting and chasing away any thing that gets close to their nests, including myself.
Elephant seal female: 4
Elephant seal pups: 4
Facility Work: Power washing continues outside of the battery and generator buildings.
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Ecological Notes:Today, we have a new elephant seal. We now have three female with one new arrival. The new arrival is laying with its back up and chest down hard and it is difficult to identify the sex. Canada geese are nesting and we now have seven nests on the main island. Groups of pacific harbor porpoises were sited off the south side of the island. DND had one blast.
Ecological Notes : After much effort to detour the Canada geese from nesting, I came home today to this Easter gift on my door step!
I have been Goosed!
Birds
Ecological Notes:. Canada Geese are nesting on the island. I found five nests this week. Canada Geese are not native to the island and are very aggressive to all the native birds. Both myself and my guest were aggressively charged by two sets of males guarding their nests. They have become more aggressive towards the gulls too!
Visitors: 1
Facility Work: Battery maintenance day. Cleaning the outside of buildings and solar panels.
Vessel Traffic: Two privet boats.
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Gull. Pigeon Guillemot are making their nest on the edge of the helicopter pad and north wall below the camera.Spring is here!
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