Weather Today: 

• Sky intermittently foggy, clear (dark clouds blowing in from W)
• Visibility 10-15 NM
• Wind 25-35 Knots NW
• Sea state: white caps, 2-3 foot chop

No visitors today. A few eco-tourism boats , 1 pleasure craft, and a large group of kayakers in the mid afternoon passed through the reserve.

Yesterday we glanced a humpback whale outside the reserve in the early morning. We have seen far fewer whales inside of the reserve as compared to last year’s fall (none!).

Census: 

• 1 Elephant seal (GE103)
• 16 Canada geese
• 127 Glaucous-winged gulls
• 633 California gulls
• 3 Savannah sparrows
• 2 Black turnstones
• 1 Black oystercatcher (spotted amongst a group of gulls!)
• 49 Brandt’s cormorants
• 1 Sea otter
• 19 Harbour seals
• 511 California sea lions
• 128 Stellar Sea lions