Tag Archives: elephantseal

Visitors

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 NW
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: a bit choppy in the afternoon, under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • plenty of boat traffic today, ecotours, fishing, sailboats
  • a group of the marine science students came by for a bit today,  I think they are getting ready for their final exam

Ecological

  • about 11 mature female elephants seals around, mostly gathered by the desal building and the others by the jetty
  • the second pup left this morning which was to be expected she is 3 months old and a couple days

Beautiful day

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 NW
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a lot of boat traffic today, from ecotour to fishing boats and sailboats, great day to be on the water

Ecological

  • about 9 elephant seals around, all female, and all in the process of molting
  • the eagles were chasing around the seagulls today and there were quite a bit of pigeon guillemots around

 

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today

Other

  • DND was blasting today, the animals were not happy about it
  • 3 of the female elephant seals are tagged one was an orange tag reading T532, then two green tags reading D019 and B198

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 33
  • california sea lions – 29
  • harbour seals – 12
  • elephant seals – 11 female
  • gulls – 174
  • cormorants – 16
  • black turnstones – 28
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 4
  • geese – 14

Wednesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 NW
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • along with some fishing boats

Ecological

  • 8 adult female elephant seals and one pup, I still havent seen the other around for about a week now, there are times where I think I see her in the intertidal areas but I’m not sure if its the pup or a harbour seal

Other

  • it was a beautiful day out, the stellars were being pretty loud out on the rocks and I got plenty of solar power today but I still need to run the generator daily until the batteries can be lifted off the concrete

Tuesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-30 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Choppy about 1 metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy, went by with a group from the college but it was too rough for them to tie up to the jetty

Ecological

  • 8 adult female elephant seals all together, 1 pup and the other pup still hasnt shown up
  • not much else going on, need to check the goose nests again soon, it looks like there is either more of them or the geese haved moved their nest

Visitors

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SE
  • Sky: Overcast
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Had a couple tours today, people from the college visiting race rocks

Ecological

  • 6 adult female elephant seals in the front yeard, and one of the pups, the other pup still hasn’t been around I assume she is out hunting, hopefully she will turn up soon