Weather

• Visibility: 15 miles
• Wind: 0-5 knots South.
• From 17:00 onwards, 15-20 knots West.
• Sky: clear and sunny most of the day.
• From 17:00 onwards, some clouds and rain.
• Water: calm

Ecological

• Census day!
• One sea lion was branded U958.
• Colour wise it looks like a Steller, but if you look at the head I think it was a California.
• Laura and her class found a sculpin (type of fish) head.
• Four of what I suspect to be Short-billed Dowitchers today. Fun to watch!
• Didn’t see the killdeer today, which is unusual.

1. Steller (Northern) Sea Lions: 66
2. Harbour Seals: 60
3. California Sea Lions: 57
4. Elephant Seals: 13 (4 on Great Race, 9 on Middle Rock)
5. Pigeon Guillemots:  269
6. Seagulls unspecified: 154
7. Surfbirds: 57
8. Canada Geese: 17
9. Black Turnstones: 17
10. Cormorants unspecified: 14
11. Harlequin Ducks: 9 (5 males and 4 females)
12. Black Oystercatchers: 6
13. Savannah Sparrows: 6
14. Short-billed Dowitchers: 4..https://www.racerocks.ca/short-billed-dowitcher/
15. Bald Eagles: 2 (2 adults, 0 immature)

Boats

• A couple of eco-tours came by.
• Second Nature came out multiple times, delivering 4 groups of students.
• On her second last return, she had overheating issues, so Kyle had to come out in Haiku for the last trip.

Visitors

• Kyle, James, Laura, and 26 students came out to Race Rocks today.
• The students were doing a walk about with Laura, discussing marine biology for their upcoming final exam.
• James did some work on the Davis Weather station and got most of it working again.

Other

• Four DND blasts today.
• 10:05, 10:07, 11:24, and 11:26.