Category Archives: Marine Vessels

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

Black Bellied Plover

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 5-15 NW up to 25 in late afternoon
  • Sky: Overcast with a few sunny spots
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today

Ecological

  • 6 female elephant seals all together, the pups are by the lighthouse the other 4 are the flag pole
  • saw a Black bellied plover today and got a few photos of it
  • the geeses are now laying eggs, saw 3 nests today

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 5-15 NE
  • Sky: Overcast
  • Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few ecotours went by this morning

Ecological

  • Same five female elephants around but less sea lions around

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 17
  • california sea lions – 28
  • harbour seals – 12
  • elephant seals – 5 female
  • gulls – 128
  • cormorants – 18
  • pigeon guillemots – 39
  • black turnstones – 18
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 2
  • geese – 14

Kayakers

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SW
  • Sky: Overcast
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, including ecotour, fishing boats and a couple kayakers

Ecological

  • All 5 female elephant seals are still doing good
  • there were plenty of harbour seals around
  • the geese will probably start nesting soon but I haven’t seen any clear nests yet
  • and saw a common merganser by the harlequinn ducks

 

Monday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-30 NW
  • Sky: Sunny, clouds in the late afternoon
  • Water: Calm in the morning really picked up in the afternoon 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by this morning

Ecological

  • still the same 5 female elephant seals around, there was some movement with the pups, one of them was in the water for a bit this morning

Saturday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-15 W
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: Calm throughout the day

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few boats our there today, ecotours and fishing boats

Ecological

  • Another juvenile female showed up today, I think its the same one from a few days ago that doesn’t have a tag on her, she is staying close to the two larger females but the pups aren’t anywhere near them

Friday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Pretty calm throughout the day

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today

Ecological

  • An adult female elephant seal showed up today and she had a pretty wornout orange tag on her that so she was definitely the one here last week, it is an orange tag reading T563, she was here on March 21st as well when I took the picture of it
  • the pups are doing fine and were right beside each other this morning but now are a bit seperated on either side of the adult females
  • also there were about 6 ravens flying around, I don’t see them around too often, I’ve seen crows around but not many ravens

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SW
  • Sky: Cloudy
  • Water: Flat Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, along with a couple visitors on the island

Ecological

  • The pups are inseperable, its adorable, then an older female that is pretty large showed up today and got right in between them, the youngest pup was pretty upset about it but the three of them are napping together now

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 29
  • california sea lions – 74
  • harbour seals – 15
  • elephant seals – 3 female
  • gulls – 205
  • cormorants – 24
  • pigeon guillemots – 276
  • black turnstones – 31
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 12
  • fox sparrows – 2
  • geese – 14
  • eagles – 2