Final exams are over so I will be posting more until I am out for winter break December 20th to January 3rd
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: From 0 – 40 SE over the last few days
- Sky: Overcast
- Water: from calm to huge waves during that last storm
Boats/Visitors
- Not a lot of visitors lately
- There were a couple of sailboats yesterday and a few ecotours, but not many
Maintenance
- Running the generator more lately as is there is less sunlight
- Still haven’t been able to pressure wash but the parts should be in when I get back from break and I can try to make the buildings white again
Ecological
- Fewer sea lions than last week
- Chunk is still the alpha but there are 3 other males on the island of varying sizes smaller than Chunk
- There is currently 1 female elephant seal
- a few green wing teal ducks took shelter here when it was storming
- have spotted a neck banded sea lion, but no way to tell if he will still be here by the time I can people out here to help him
Census
- California Sea Lions – 213
- Steller Sea Lions – 192
- Harbour Seal – 35
- Elephant Seal – 4 male, 1 female
- Cormorants – 207
- Gulls – 233
- Fox Sparrows – 12
- Canada Geese – 21
- Black Turnstones – 38
- Eagle – 8
- Raven – 1
- Snow Bunting – 1
- Oyster Catchers – 12
- Harlequin Ducks – 10
- Green Wing Teal – 6
