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2 bull Elephant seals are very vocal

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Thursday, March 07, 2002
Good Evening
TEMPERATURE: Max. 1.0C  Min. -3.0C  Reset -0.5C  Snow 3.0 cm = 3.0mm
MARINE LIFE: 1 lone mature Bald Eagle this morning but did not stay long. Seems the closer we get to the first day of spring the worse the weather. 2 pair of geese today and the 2 bull Elephant seals are very vocal as they spend the night in the area around the boat ramp. We are used to the usual ‘snorting’ sounds but lately they have been letting out some great bellows which I have read can be heard up to a mile away. Certainly they are loud enough to wake us at 2 a.m.!
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:43 PM
Good Morning
WEATHER: Sky Cloudy  Vis 15 Miles Wind North North East 19 Knots  Sea 3 Foot Moderate >> Low East Swell
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:13 AM

Wind North East 25 G 33 Knots Sea 4 -5 Foot Moderate

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Wednesday, March 06, 2002
Good Evening 3/6/2002
TEMPERATURE: Max. 5.0C  Min -2.0C  Reset 0.0C No Rain or Snow
MARINE LIFE: 5 Bald Eagles – 3 mature- arrived first light but left the area earlier than usual as the weather deteriorated.
HUMAN INTERACTION: 12:30 Angus arrived to take Garry back to campus. With the wind and easterly swell it was another tricky manouever to ‘nudge’ into the dock so Garry could jump into the boat – timing is everything, not for the squeamish!
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:22 PM
Good Morning
WEATHER: Sky Cloudy  Vis. 15 Miles  Wind North East 25 G 33 Knots  Sea 4 -5 Foot Moderate  Low Easterly Swell
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:19 AM

Black Oystercatchers calling

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‘Mike gave me a lift over this morning to work on the data computer, I will be going back to “civilization?” at noon tomorrow. Students are all off on Project week this week so it is rather quiet around the campus. The pair of Black Oystercatchers was active here with their high pitched calls down by the docks this afternoon. One can hear them occasionally these days on cameras 1 and 3. I also noted an eagle perched on the subtidal island directly to the West this afternoon at low tide. You may often see an eagle along the island rock crests in presets 2 and 4 of the remote camera if you pan along the cliff edge. I noted an absence of gulls this evening. They don’t stay around at night until they have established territories and taken up nesting. Go to the video archives for recent website additions: several new videos in the invertebrate section and a new Northern Sea Lion video–Garry

Glaucous-winged Gulls visiting

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Monday, March 04, 2002
Good Evening
TEMPERATURE: Max. 9.9C Min. 3.8C Reset 7.8C No Rain
WEATHER: It was a cloudy day  Vis. 15 all day Wind North 4 – 7 knots at 14:30 wind shift West 17 right now at 16:11 West 40 knots  Sea rippled until 15:15 >> 2 – 3 foot chop now 5 foot moderate
MARINE LIFE: 3 Bald Eagles – 2 immature.In pairs, the Black Oyster Catchers are spending most of the mornings along the shore adjacent to nesting areas on Gr. Race. The Glaucous-winged Gulls are visiting the nesting areas in the early morning, they are very noticeable by their vocalizing in contrast to the gulls that winter over which are very quiet.
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:11 PM

Good Morning

WEATHER: Sky Cloudy  Vis. 15 Miles  Wind North 4 Knots  Sea Rippled
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:36 AM

Mike and Carol to return

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Friday, March 01, 2002
Good day.
WEATHER: clear and sunny>> >> Vis 17 miles>> >> Wind ENE 8 knots >> >> Sea rippled
MARINE LIFE: Bald eagles 3 mature and 2 immature on West Race and by the Helipad. I only saw 2 Canada geese so far today.
HUMAN INTERACTION: 2 eco-tour boats this afternoon and one sport fishing vessel on the western reserve border this morning.
Just received a call from Mike ( the regular eco-guardian) He is coming back today. I am meeting him at the marina at 1700hrs to do the watch change. Then it is back to reality. This has been a great three days; sad to have to go back.
Chris
posted by Chris Blondeau at 3:52 PM

Elephant seals

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Thursday, February 28, 2002
 Good evening
Weather: Clear and sunny>> >> Vis 15 miles>> >>Wind N to NE 5-10 knots all day>> >> Sea rippled
MARINE LIFE: Quiet on all fronts. 4 Canada geese spent the day on the island. 2 mature Bald Eagles near the helipad this morning and 1 immature this afternoon. Spotted 4 adult male Elephant Seals hauled out on Middle Rock. No sign of the wounded young male we saw over the past few days.
HUMAN INTERACTION: Garry came by with the divers and the mother of a student visiting the college. Haven’t been diving since Monday; today would have been a good day to get wet. Zodiac from Victoria Coast Guard Auxillary came through around dinner time. The two Zodiacs from Victoria Police and Fisheries grazed the boundaries of the reserve on their way back to Victoria at sunset; which was a colorful event again tonight.
Chris
posted by Chris Blondeau at 11:44 PM

wounded elephant seal

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Wednesday, February 27, 2002
[2/27/2002 20:13:23 PM | Chris Blondeau
Good evening
Weather: Partly cloudy with sunny breaks>> >>Vis 15 miles>> >> Wind West 5-10 Knots this morning and 15-25 this afternoon>> >> Sea 2 foot chop.
MARINE LIFE: Another parade of Bald Eagles this morning. 3 immature and about 6 adults scattered on the various rocks around the reserve. 4 Canada geese spent the better part of the day on Great Race island. I spotted the young male Elephant Seal with wounds on his back laying with a female on top of middle rock. The blood stains he left on the docks on Monday are still visible. He seems to be doing alright. Another adult male spent a good portion of the afternoon floating around and vocalizing by the docks in front of the boat ramp. It looked for a while like he was going to haul ashore for the night but it was not to be.
HUMAN INTERACTION: One rental boat from Pedder Bay Marina spent about an hour in the area sightseeing and taking pictures of the wildlife. A Coast Guard helicopter landed a crew this afternoon to perform some maintenance on the solar panels, storage batteries, fog horn and beacon on top of the tower.
This afternoon I undertook to clean our specimen tank. A lot of the sediments carried by the water we pump in never gets a chance to make the return trip to the ocean. As a result it settles in the tank and needs to be removed periodically. So all the specimens were transferred to another tank; the main tank emptied, cleaned and restocked.
Have a look on camera 1.
More tomorrow
Chris
posted by Chris Blondeau at 11:42 AM

Elephant seal tangled

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Monday, February 25, 2002
Good Evening
TEMPERATURE: Max. 4c >> >> Min 2c >> >> Reset 4c >> >> Rain none
MARINELIFE: Lots of Elephant Seal action today with one in the west bay and one on the slipway. Took lots of video. One on Centre Rock is still tangled in line. Two mature and one immature Bald Eagles here in the morning. Still three pairs of geese.
HUMAN INTERACTION: One ecotour boat and a short visit from Second Nature to drop off supplies. An airplane flew over the MPA at a fairly low (500 ft?) altitude and circled the MPA three times.
posted by Angus Matthews at 9:25 PM
Good Morning
Weather: Sunny and clear >> >>Vis 17 Miles >> >> Wind NNE 14 Knots >> >> Sea 2 foot chop
posted by Angus Matthews at 9:18 PM

Orca through the reserve.

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Thursday, February 21, 2002
Good Evening
TEMPERATURE: Max. 8.0C Min. 5.1C  Reset 8.0C  Rain 42.2 mm
MARINE LIFE: 2 mature 1 immature Bald Eagles, 2 pairs of Geese
-The Pearson College Divers, on their way to Church Island, passed 6 Orca moving Eastward through Race Passage. One bull, one female , several immature, one smaller calf: all moving slowly, shallow dives, no whale watching boats in site! (recorded by Garry)
WEATHER: as you see it was a wet one out here today. the wind was up in the morning North 17 by 10:00 it was very light
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:17 PM
Good Morning
WEATHER: Sky Overcast  Vis. 10 Miles Moderate Rain  Wind North 17 Knots  Sea 3-4 Foot Moderate with Low North East Swell
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:57 AM

Eagles and geese

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Monday, February 18, 2002
Good Evening
TEMPERATURE: Max. 7.8C Min. 5.9C Reset 6.5C  Rain 1.0 mm
MARINE LIFE: 16 mature 7 immature Bald Eagles,2 pairs of geese
on the island today.
HUMAN INTERACTION: 2 nd Nature out with visitors this morning,
and back in the afternoon for a dive off west race.
1 pleasure boat through M.P.A. today
posted by Carol or Mike S at 6:33 PM
Good Morning
WEATHER: Sky Overcast Vis. 15 Miles  Wind West 4 Knots  Sea Rippled
posted by Carol or Mike S at 7:14 AM