Wildlife notes:

The gulls are eating something new.  The solar panels today were covered with exceptional large sprays of pinky-orange gull poo. One day I may write a Cleaners Guide to Gull Poo, rating ease of clean up from 1: requiring several rounds of pre-soaking and excessive scrubbing to 5: easy wipe, little water needed. Today’s poo rates as a 4: no scrub, extra water due to chunky consistency.

The egg thief is making a statement. Their collection of gull eggs shells near the house is growing.  I’d love to discover who is responsible – if only I had a trail camera to set up.

Unlike the egg thief, the female elephant is quietly minding her own business in the field.

Four chattering purple martins (3 female or immature and one male) visited today. I believe they are trying to find a nesting spot and were inspecting the pipes on the south side of tower that emit signals for the fog detectors. There are two nesting boxes on the island that have not yet been mounted. Seeing they have returned, I’ll look for a place to stand them up.

Facility work

• cleaned the solar panels
• worked on the walkways
• cleaned the outside windows on the Keeper’s House
• 690 L of diesel fuel was delivered today (415 L large tidy tank, 100L small tidy tank, 175 L into a barrel). The next delivery will not be until the fall.

Vessels

• Ecotourism:18
• Private: 11

Weather

Light SE and NE winds until late afternoon when the temperature reached 25 degrees C. Westerly fresh breeze in the early evening bringing the temperature down to 13 degrees C. Daytime temperatures: 13 low, high 25.

Parts of Vancouver Island reached over 30 degrees today. Here it is comfortable – no long underwear needed and I even skipped lighting the woodstove tonight.