Weather

• Visibility: 10 Miles, a bit foggy this morning but burned off by noon to partly cloudy
• Wind: 10-15 NW got continuously more calm through the day
• Sky: partly cloudy throughout the day
• Water: stayed consistently calm

Boats/Visitors

• A lot of ecotours came through today
• Had a couple visitors, come by with Kyle this morning and then had Kyle and Guy come back this afternoon to help me out with a couple things

Ecological

• Census day!
  1. Steller (Northern) Sea Lions: 35
  2. Harbour Seals: 44
  3. California Sea Lions: 23
  4. Elephant Seals: 13
  5. Seagulls unspecified: 291
  6. Pigeon Guillemots: 152
  7. Cormorants unspecified: 29
  8. Canada Geese: 14
  9. Savannah Sparrows: 0
  10. Harlequin Ducks: 8 (2 female, 6 male)
  11. Black Oystercatchers: 8
  12. Bald Eagles: 2 (2 adults, 1 immature)
• There are 2 more elephant seals than usual! so thats exciting, they stayed scattered today on the path from the lighthouse to the jetty
• As you can see there have been a decrease in sea lions, they are no longer on the southern rocks and have moved to the main island one group on the north side and another group on the southside
• There have been an increase in gulls, pigeon guillemots and cormorants, also the harlequins are back, I did not see them last week
• There has also been an increase in harbour seals, when I counted them they were mostly all on the Middle Rocks but have since scattered about the South Islands as well