Monday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-30 NW
  • Sky: Sunny, clouds in the late afternoon
  • Water: Calm in the morning really picked up in the afternoon 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by this morning

Ecological

  • still the same 5 female elephant seals around, there was some movement with the pups, one of them was in the water for a bit this morning

Sunday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 20-40 SW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • Didn’t really see any boats today, its been blowing pretty hard

Ecological

  • the 5 female elephant seals are still around, no new ones today

Saturday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-15 W
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: Calm throughout the day

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few boats our there today, ecotours and fishing boats

Ecological

  • Another juvenile female showed up today, I think its the same one from a few days ago that doesn’t have a tag on her, she is staying close to the two larger females but the pups aren’t anywhere near them

Friday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Pretty calm throughout the day

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today

Ecological

  • An adult female elephant seal showed up today and she had a pretty wornout orange tag on her that so she was definitely the one here last week, it is an orange tag reading T563, she was here on March 21st as well when I took the picture of it
  • the pups are doing fine and were right beside each other this morning but now are a bit seperated on either side of the adult females
  • also there were about 6 ravens flying around, I don’t see them around too often, I’ve seen crows around but not many ravens

Census

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SW
  • Sky: Cloudy
  • Water: Flat Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, along with a couple visitors on the island

Ecological

  • The pups are inseperable, its adorable, then an older female that is pretty large showed up today and got right in between them, the youngest pup was pretty upset about it but the three of them are napping together now

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 29
  • california sea lions – 74
  • harbour seals – 15
  • elephant seals – 3 female
  • gulls – 205
  • cormorants – 24
  • pigeon guillemots – 276
  • black turnstones – 31
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 12
  • fox sparrows – 2
  • geese – 14
  • eagles – 2

Wednesday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-25 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Some waves throughout the day 0-1 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today, had some visitors on the island today

Ecological

  • the past few days the two pups have been inseperable, they were playing together in the water this morning and are sleeping by the flag pole now, strange they havent seem to really connected with each other until the past few days

 

Tuesday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-30 SW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Some waves 0-1 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, ecotours and fishing

Ecological

  • The pup were following each other for a bit this morning then went back to what seems to be their favourite spots
  • Not much other than that happening, its been very windy today

 

Sunday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SE
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Some waves 0-1 metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today

Ecological

  • the youngest pup went in the water today, photo included below
  • another juvenile female elephant seal showed up, untagged