The first foggy day in a couple weeks today!
With 6 new solar panels installed along with replacements to wiring that had corroded with the salty air this week, it seems the fog is barely affected our power supply which is amazing!
A couple DND blasts at Noon through the fog made even fewer animals around the reserve today.
Birds
- Harlequin duck 5
- Bald eagle adult 2
- Glaucous winged Gulls 527
- Cormorants 31
- Pigeon Guillemots 176
- Oyster catcher 10
- Oyster catcher eggs 7 (3 in two nests and 1 in a third)
- Savannah Sparrow 1
- Canada Goose 14
- Barn Swallow 1
- Crow 3
Mammals
- Steller sea lion 10
- Harbour seal 63
- California sea lion 17
- Elephant seal sub adult male 2
- Elephant seal adult female 2
- Elephant seal pups 3
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- Three elephant seals snuggled up
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- Glaucous winged gulls on the tank shed
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- Canada goose washing at sunrise
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- Oyster catcher at sunrise in the fog
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- Harbour Seals in the fog
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- Glaucous winged gulls
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- California sea lions on the rocks by the jetty.
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- A couple playing elephant seals
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- Yawning elephant seal
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- Glaucous winged gull
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- Small vessel going by in the fog
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- Pigeon Guillemots
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- A pair of Oyster Catchers by their nest on the Northern point.
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- Stellar sea lions out on middle rock before the DND blasting.
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- 2 of the 3 crows that landed on the helicopter pad.
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- 2 female and a male California sea lion.
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- Canada Goose.
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- Playing California sea lions
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- Swimming steller sea lion
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- The two largest of the steller sea lions having a territory dispute.
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- Oyster catcher
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- Spill response vessel going by to the north in the fog.
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- young Elephant seal
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- sub adult elephant seal
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- Sunrise through the fog.
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- Elephant Seals playing
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- Female california sea lion
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- Elephant seals playing
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- sleepy oyster catcher
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- Elephant seals in the front yard
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- Oyster Catcher eggs.
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- Fog rainbow and gulls.
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- Harbor seal and a canada goose
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- Female
Visitors:
- Race Rocks Challenge participants
- 3 contractors installing and maintaining solar panels
- 44 Marine Science students visited to write their exam
- 4 Pearson College Second year students came for a visit before the school year ends.
Facility Work:
- Fixed Compost
- Taped off Oyster Catcher nests and made map
- Cleaned house
- Filled water in batteries
- Emptied and cleaned composting toilet
- Cleaned windows and solar panels
- Mopped basement
- Organized and cleaned tool drawers
- Fixed and rebuilt sections of Electric fence
- Cleaned lighthouse
** All wildlife photos taken at the furthest distance possible, and may be cropped to improve detail! **
Weather – Current:
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