Tag Archives: tagged

Turkey Vulture

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-40 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Choppy, under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today

Ecological

  • Another tagged female elephant seal showed up today with a tag on her but I couldn’t get a good look at the tag, just that it was green
  • A turkey vulture flew around a few times before leaving
  • a killdeer was running around

Friday

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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

Tagged elephant seal

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Weather

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

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, no visitors

Ecological

  • One of the pups is now by the tank shed and the other one is by the compost bin, still no male elephant seals around
  • there is another tagged female now, a mature one the tag is pretty worn out, but its an orange tag that reads T 563

Tuesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 SW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 0-1 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today along with having a couple tours today from the college

Ecological

  • haven’t seen the males around, only 3 elephant seals on the island today, both the pups along with one tagged female elephant seal, tag is C-887

0 SW

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SW was 0 this morning, came up in the afternoon
  • Sky: Very Sunny
  • Water: Flat Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few boats out there
  • also quite a few visitors coming to take a quick tour of race rocks

Ecological

  • The males both seem to have gone off today, I haven’t seen them, I’ve only seen the pups along with the two juvenile tagged females

Visitors

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-20 W
  • Sky: Mostly Cloudy, rain in the late afternoon
  • Water: Waves 0-1 metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today,
  • some staff from the college along with a group of people came by the island today for a little tour

Ecological

  • Still the two males and 4 females, two of them tagged around the jetty

Another Tagged Elephant Seal

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 W
  • Sky: Very Sunny
  • Water: Flat Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few fishing boats and ecotours out today

Ecological

  • The oldest pup was in the water again today, I got some photos of her on the rocks near the water
  • another tagged female elephant seal showed up today could only make out the last 3 digits on the tag which were 019

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SE
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: Some waves this morning but calm later in the day

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, ecotours and fishing

Ecological

  • An adult female elephant seal showed up today and the oldest pup was relaxing on the jetty with the sea lions
  • also the juvenile male had blood on him, there may have been a couple small puncture wounds but nothing serious
  • it was a beautiful afternoon, a bit difficult counting with all the movement

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 75
  • california sea lions – 112
  • harbour seals – 28
  • elephant seals – 2 male, 4 female
  • gulls – 324
  • cormorants – 35
  • pigeon guillemots – 37 (there were way more yesterday)
  • black turnstones – 18
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 11
  • fox sparrows – 2
  • geese – 12

Tagged female elephant seal

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-25 NW
  • Sky: Mostly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres in the morning, 0 in the evening

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today
  • had a couple visitors along with the two alumni that spent the night

Ecological

  • Both pups were by the jetty today, the older pup went in but the younger stayed close to the new female who is also by the jetty
  • the new female appears to be young still and she is tagged, there was mud on the tag so I’m not quite sure what the number was it was a green tag C-8?7