Category Archives: Bird Notes

Census and Fog

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Weather

  • Visibility: 0-15 Miles, fog a few times throughout the day
  • Wind: 15-35 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today

Ecological

  • there were quite a few californias on the jetty
  • there is one young male in the about 9 elephant seals, photos included

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 38
  • california sea lions – 25
  • harbour seals – 32
  • elephant seals – 9 female 1 male
  • gulls – 150
  • cormorants – 28
  • pigeon guillemots – 50
  • black turnstones – 18
  • harlequinn ducks – 0
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 8
  • geese – 16

Cam 5 Eagle picture taken from England

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Pam Birley sent this picture that she captured today of a pair of eagles.
she writes “The superb eagle pair were perched below Cam 5 today. ”

Visitors and census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 20-40 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy, dropped off a group of 8 students and 1 chaperone from Pearson College for a little overnight trip

Ecological

  • Seems to be less sea lions lately, and only about 9 elephants

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 23
  • california sea lions – 31
  • harbour seals – 42
  • elephant seals – 9 female
  • gulls – 150
  • cormorants – 28
  • pigeon guillemots – 152
  • black turnstones – 28
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 12
  • geese – 16

Beautiful day

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 NW
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a lot of boat traffic today, from ecotour to fishing boats and sailboats, great day to be on the water

Ecological

  • about 9 elephant seals around, all female, and all in the process of molting
  • the eagles were chasing around the seagulls today and there were quite a bit of pigeon guillemots around

 

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today

Other

  • DND was blasting today, the animals were not happy about it
  • 3 of the female elephant seals are tagged one was an orange tag reading T532, then two green tags reading D019 and B198

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 33
  • california sea lions – 29
  • harbour seals – 12
  • elephant seals – 11 female
  • gulls – 174
  • cormorants – 16
  • black turnstones – 28
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 4
  • geese – 14

Tuesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-30 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Choppy about 1 metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy, went by with a group from the college but it was too rough for them to tie up to the jetty

Ecological

  • 8 adult female elephant seals all together, 1 pup and the other pup still hasnt shown up
  • not much else going on, need to check the goose nests again soon, it looks like there is either more of them or the geese haved moved their nest

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy, Dan and Travis dropped by today to work on the internet and help me with a couple chores

Ecological

  • Yet another 2 females came by today making a total of 9 elephant seals all of them female

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 28
  • california sea lions – 35
  • harbour seals – 12
  • elephant seals – 9 female
  • gulls – 150
  • cormorants – 28
  • pigeon guillemots – 52
  • black turnstones – 18
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 2
  • geese – 12

Turkey Vulture

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-40 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Choppy, under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today

Ecological

  • Another tagged female elephant seal showed up today with a tag on her but I couldn’t get a good look at the tag, just that it was green
  • A turkey vulture flew around a few times before leaving
  • a killdeer was running around