Wildlife notes
The rocky beach on the eastern shore is popular with the shorebirds which starting arriving this week. Surfbirds, black turnstones and western sandpipers are present and today a short-billed dowitcher arrived. There is another little yellow-legged bird flittering about but I haven’t been able to get a good look at it or a photo.

A short-billed dowitcher in the foreground with surfbirds and a black turnstone. I had to scoot along on my tush creeping slowly closer to get this photo with my cell phone as our big camera is having focusing issues.
Facility work
- cleaned the solar panels
- cleaned the battery room
The old batteries were removed the Battery Room so I scrubbed the floors where they sat for years, and the walls and cupboard doors in preparation for the new table for our instruments and supplies (battery filler bottle, pipettes, specific gravity sampler and data sheets, spray bottle, water, paper towels etc.). When the table arrives, I’ll wipe out the inside of the cupboard.
- Before – Corner of the battery room where the old batteries were stored.
- After
- Before – Cupboard doors
- After
Vessels
- Ecotourism: 10
- Private: 4
Weather
Steady fresh westerly breeze, building to a strong breeze in the evening. Skies mostly clear with patches of fog. Daytime temperatures: low 11, high 13.