Category Archives: Ecoguardians Log

Boat shed roof repaired

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Weather

Very nice weather 15 to 20 knots East wind . calm day

Ecological

Now every 2 hours  the baby got fed and everything looked fine. the baby was not moving easily  and was crying a lot maybe from frustration or to get attention. It was really nice to see everything from the window .

Maintenance

Kyle came with his wife and helped Guy on the boat shed roof. it badly needed repairs and patches of shingles before the heavy rainy days expected next week.

Marine activity

One whale watcher boats with freezing people ! and a plane above in the afternoon

 

The new one and mum get settled

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Weather

Wind:11knots,North East

Sky:Clear to cloudy

Visibility:Over 15miles

Ecological

Everything was going smoothly for the the new one.We missed the birth for one minute looking for our camera. It was so quickly done . What was very nice to watch and listen were the fist interactions between the 2. The male coming from sea one hour letter was also pretty dramatic : the female trying to protect the young one but she couldn’t help a full inspection. After that he went away observing closely the situation from a distance. The placenta went out 6hours later for the delight of a gull keeping the others out of the way.The baby was already looking for the tits and the mother tried to help him but no feeding for that day.

other

Visitors :Kyle brought James . and he put a camera up ready for the next coming birth in a few days.

2 new female Elephant Seals

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Weather

Wind:at 8:00 12km/h North East

Sea : calm,no waves

Visibility :over 15 miles

Ecological

At low tide I discovered 3 couples of oystercatchers. Many hunting and watching eagles around ,some very big and immature ones. At night the big male Elephant Seal and one of the female came closed to the house ,lying against each other and she was complaining at times.

Census and calm day

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Weather

Wind :went down around 10:00AM to 13knots

Sky: Nice and sunny and cold day

Census

Gulls:136

Cormorants:60

Elephant Seals:2 (1 female in the evening + the boss)

Sea lions:65

Harbour seals:34

Geese:4

Harlequin Ducks:14

Black turn Stones:10

Raven:2

Eagles :4

Maintenance

Camera 5 cleaned,battery in the crane house put in charge,desalinator and generator on

Boats

1whale Watcher vessel

 

Gale warning and in effect

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Weather

Wind: Pretty quickly the wind blew to 40knots ,reached 42 knots in the afternoon and 46 around 5:00PM and a few gust to 52knots around 9:00PM. The wind stayed strong even in the middle of the night

Sea: white crests to very high waves .

Water temperature: Around 6 degrees Celsius getting colder than the days before

Tides: very high around 10:00AM (2m98) and very low at 7:30

Air temperature:2degrees feel like -4

Ecological:

Wall flowers blooming,3 seagulls bodies.the unique Elephant on the rocks found a good spot closed to the crane to get protected and changed through the day

Maintenance

Tidying inside

changeover postponed day 4

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Weather: Wind NE 30-40 in the morning decreasing to below 20 knots in the afternoon. Forecast looks good for a planned shift changeover tomorrow morning.

Boats: 3 ecotour vessels

Maintenance:

  • collected several shingles that had blown off of the boat house overnight
  • another round of clean-up/pack-up for shift change
  • repaired 2 damaged extension cord plugs
  • raised a new flag on the flag pole
  • installed fresh chain on chainsaw