Animal census Oct 18

Beautiful day, but mostly high tide so a bit harder to count. Injured elephant seal still in the same 10m radius circle near the jetty, 48h after first sighting.

  • 928 california sea lions
  • 566 steller sea lions
  • 8+ bowhead whales
  • 10 canada geese
  • 6 elephant seals
  • 12 harbour seals
  • 230 gulls (way more came back at dusk)
  • 283 cormorans
  • 3 black turnstone
  • 1 brown pelican, passing by
  • 2 ravens, passing by

Tags – see pictures attached. All sea lions except for 2 elephant seals:

  • 312?
  • 3
  • 3X13
  • 730
  • 9776
  • C?70
  • C772
  • C82?
  • C927_456
  • C945_X2
  • K646_greentag_elephant_seal
  • V27
  • V839
  • VA057_cookiecut
  • X0
  • X289
  • X292
  • X2
  • X351_injured_elephant_seal
  • X46
  • X?55
  • X55?
  • X63
  • X655
  • X65?
  • X68
  • X6?
  • X773

October 16

  • Bald Eagle in the morning, West side of the island.
  • Strong wind ~35 knots starting around 14:30
  • ~14:30 a young Elephant Seal (~1m long), orange tag #X351, laying on the rocks on the North side right along the jetty, shivering and showing skin lesions all over its back and right side, all the way to its back fins (dorsal part bleeding). Reported to competent authorities.

injured sea lion tag #VA047 Injured young Elephant Seal (~1m long), orange tag #X351