Two tiny harvest brodiaea (crown brodiaea) about 5cm tall were found on the rocks west of the Student Building. It is a native plant not yet found on Race Rocks. The closest sighting I could find was by the famous botanist Adolf Ceska on the shore across Race Passage in the 1985. It grows from southern BC to California on dry grassy sites or rock bluffs and has traditionally been harvested for its small, nutty flavoured corm which can be eaten raw or cooked.
Harvest brodiaea (Brodiaea coronaria)
Wildlife notes
The gulls are in various stages of courting, nest building and incubating. About 20% of the built nests have eggs in them. Some gulls have not yet built nests and there are areas (compared to last year) not yet fully occupied by courting pairs. There are few sea lions, the pigeon guillemots have been out for most of the day and the three year-old (L334) elephant seal returned today after being absent for a couple of days.
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- Unidentified food source.
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- Gulls fighting over something other than nesting territory.
Facility work
- cleaned the solar panels
- brought firewood rounds into the basement ahead of tomorrow’s rain, started organizing wood pile for splitting and stacking
Vessels
- Ecotourism: 13
- Private: 2
Weather
Westerlies 20 knots and partly cloudy in the morning. Skies overcast in the pm, winds 8 knots by evening. Daytime temperatures 11 to 13 degrees.