Weather

• Visibility: 15 miles
• Wind: 5-10 knots North East, then from 15:00 onwards 15-25 knots West
• Sky: mostly overcast
• Water: rippled

Ecological

• Census day!
• This morning at about 7:00 I spied the Otter wandering along the wooden deck.
• Later in the early evening I spied him again and got two photos!
• Saw one branded California Sea Lion: X[?]60
• Watched fascinated as two crows boldly flew up to two eagles and scampered about next to them!
• Saw some seagulls muck about in a goose nest. I think they were eating the eggs.

1. Harbour Seals: 70
2. California Sea Lions: 70
3. Steller (Northern) Sea Lions: 53
4. Elephant Seals: 9 (2 on Great Race, 7 on Middle Rock)
5. River Otter: 1
6. Seagulls unspecified: 172
7. Pigeon Guillemots: 138
8. Surfbirds: 88
9. Cormorants unspecified: 49 (all on Middle Rocks)
10. Canada Geese: 19
11. Black Turnstones: 14
12. Harlequin Ducks: 9 (5 males and 4 females)
13. Black Oystercatchers: 6
14. Bald Eagles: 2 (2 adults, 0 immature)
15. Savannah Sparrow: 2
16. Crows: 2

Maintenance

• Lots of intense goose work.
• Pumped one 55 gallon barrel of diesel into the tidy tank.

Boats

• A couple of eco-tours came by, as well as pleasure craft.
• In the late morning, several kayakers entered the reserve.
• Most of them stayed over by the North Rocks, but a few wandered down to South Rocks.
• Some of them had difficulty dealing with the strong ebb tidal current, and had to renegotiate their route to rejoin the others.
• Stay safe out there!