Weather

• Visibility: clear, 15 miles throughout the day
• Wind: ranging from 9-22 knots throughout the day
• Sky: overcast for most of the day
• Water: calm, a bit choppy at times

Boats/Visitors

• Didn’t notice much boat traffic today aside from the usual busy commercial freighters
• No visitors today

Ecological

• More failed mating attempts by the young male elephant seals with the one female on the island.

Census

• Cormorants – 90
• Gulls – 275
• Elephant Seals – 6  (3 adolescent males, 1 adult male, 1 adult female and 1 pup)
• California Sea Lions – 120
• Stellar Seal Lions – 93
• Black Turnstones – 10
• Canada Geese – 4
• Bald Eagles – 7
  

  Three males surround the single female currently on the island