Ecological Notes:

• 1 Male Elephant Seal out on Helicopter rock
• California Sealions moving about with a little coaxing.

Visitors:

• Greg, the waterfront Coordinator, came out to help with maintenance.
  

Facility Work:

• Replaced door handles on 2 of the generator building doors.
  
• Replaced Control Panel on the Desalinator. It cleared the “stuck in standby” problem we were having, but now we have a new problem we’re troubleshooting.

• Continued troubleshooting of the hardline (VOIP) phone system. Reset all gates and routers.
• Made several new fence parts for the electric fences, ready for install.

DND events:

• Several blasts. Noted disturbance of Sea Lions. They have been very edgy these last few days.
  

Noted Vessel Traffic:

• 4 different Ecotourism vessels
  
• 2 different private(?) vessels in the reserve, facilitating freedivers in the water. Good boating practices adhered to.

Weather Events:

• Westerly winds of 30 knots, gave through to westerly winds of up to 40 knots in the evening.mix of overcast and clear skies, swells of up to 1 meter.

** All wildlife photos taken at the furthest distance possible, and may be cropped to improve detail! **

Weather – Current:

http://www.victoriaweather.ca/current.php?id=72

Weather – Past:

http://www.victoriaweather.ca/station.php?

Birds

• Bald eagle adult                          5
  
• Bald eagle juvenile                     6
  
• Turnstones                                   19
  
• Dunlin                                            9
  
• Gulls, Glaucous and Western    68
• Cormorants                                   57
• Canadian goose                           8
• Crows/ Ravens(?)                        7
• Pacific Wren *                               8
           * could not get a picture, ID based solely on size, colour, and behavior

Mammals

• Steller sea lion                           164
  
• Harbour seal                                19
  
• California sea lion                       192
• Male Elephant Seal                     1