See pictures:

– do elephant seals eat grass ??

– 3 pelicans passing by

– Carcass of a sea lion washed on the beach on the east side

– Return of the young catastrophic moulter elephant seal, now back to 5 elephant seals

– Bald Eagles: 8 bald eagles have been staying on the rocks every morning starting on Tuesday this week: 2 adults and 6 young ones.
– Gulls: massive inflow of sea gulls on Wednesday-Thursday (+200 newcomers within 24h). They are becoming increasingly agitated.
– Geese: while there are 4 established couples, a single one hangs by the lighthouse, on its own.

Mammals:
– 4 elephant seals, all females, one tag: L334
– 10 steller sea lions, mostly on the northeast rock
– 17 california sea lions mostly around the jetty
– 58 harbor seals

Birds:
– Gulls: 500+ (about 270 in the morning and more than 500 later in the day, lots of newcomers on that day)
– Cormorants: 120
– Canada Geese: 9 Geese. Only 6 eggs this week, all in the same nest by the house. No visible eggs for the other 3 couples. Gulls have been feasting on them, no eggs left.
– Bald Eagles: 8 (2 adults + 6 youngs), mostly on the seals’ southern rock.
– Black Turnstones: 21
– Surfbirds (brownish): 2
– North western crow: 1
– Sparrows: 18
– Barn Swallow (orange belly): 1
– Black Oystercatcher: 6
– Pigeon Guillemot: 85
– Harlequin Duck: 15