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A trip back into the archives for this picture of Willow and Schaefer back in 2018. Taken by the railway tracks used once a week by the heritage railway, which have previously featured on this blog with my Canon. I am not sure, in all honesty, whether I took this picture or Samuel did. We did a bit of photography there around that time. I like the colours, which from memory would not have been particularly 'processed'. Schaefer probably also likes the colours, given there is a lot less grey in his coat than these days.
It seems strange not heading off to the coast to see the seal pups, but sadly this year it isn't to be. Fingers crossed for next year.
Brave scout
After the pups spotted me and vanished into the Willow thicket, I circled around to the other side. Perhaps they came out on that side. No luck with that. Once again I returned to the original spot. Initially there were no pups in sight. Then, after about 10 minutes, this brave pup poked his head out and came into the open. He saw me right away. It was time to give them a rest. I turned walked away.
Last image of the series
Harbour or Common Seal - Phoca vitulina
Norfolk.....
The smaller of our two UK seal species, Common Seals are also known as Harbour Seals. Despite being called "Common", they are actually less common than Grey Seals!
The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of pinniped (walruses, eared seals, and true seals), they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Baltic and North Seas.
Harbor seals are brown, silvery white, tan, or gray, with distinctive V-shaped nostrils. An adult can attain a length of 1.85 m (6.1 ft) and a mass of 132 kg (290 lb). Blubber under the seal's skin helps to maintain body temperature. Females outlive males (30–35 years versus 20–25 years). Harbor seals stick to familiar resting spots or haulout sites, generally rocky areas (although ice, sand, and mud may also be used) where they are protected from adverse weather conditions and predation, near a foraging area. Males may fight over mates under water and on land. Females bear a single pup after a nine-month gestation, which they care for alone. Pups can weigh up to 16 kg (35 lb) and are able to swim and dive within hours of birth. They develop quickly on their mothers' fat-rich milk, and are weaned after four to six weeks.
The global population of harbor seals is 350,000–500,000, but subspecies in certain habitats are threatened. Once a common practice, sealing is now illegal in many nations within the animal's range.
Herbie enjoying a short rest
Yesterday evening me, Tracey, and Herb had a walk around Towneley park.
Of course Herb did a lot of running about, so here he is having a 10 second speed rest 😀
The day had started off wet, and then became dry but very windy. Not many people were in the park at all… very enjoyable!
Burnley
Lancashire
Next to last in my young wildlife series is this shot of four Black-tailed Prairie Dog pups on alert atop their burrow mound. If a serious threat had developed, they would have disappeared into the burrow in about one second. But they soon relaxed and returned to grazing on the nice green spring grass.
Custer State Park, South Dakota.
Fox pup from a den thats on Main str downtown Breckenridge. It always amazes me how many people pass by without noticing the foxes.
Four Timber Wolf pups are roughhousing at the den (the nose and an ear are all that can be seen in one case).
Maryland Pig Services' ex-Conrail SW8 returns light to the property after dropping a single mill gondola for the CSS. This pup's sole task is to ferry gondolas between Maryland Pig Services and the CSS interchange located across from 130th Street. Its extremely sporadic schedule and quick round trip make it a difficult engine to shoot.
a female southern sea otter with her pup enjoys the first warming sun rays at the harbour of Morro Bay, CA
My photagraphy has really opened new worlds for me! What started out as something to do during Covid has become a passion for delving into the wilds surrounding Boulder, Colorado. Because of the City of Boulder Open Space & Mountain Parks established in the early 70's, large tracts of surrounding land were set aside and protected as a habitat for many of the the native vegetation, insect and animal lives. I seem to find something new every time I go out and yesterday met up with this cute coyote pup! We eyed each other for a while before he slinked off into his den. How cool is that!?
Pup enjoying a walk among the brightly colored autumn trees.
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An adorable Elephant Seal pup rested on the beach with a group of other pups. I fell in love with those big dark eyes.
Eastern Gray Squirrel pup (a.k.a. Gray Squirrel; Sciurus carolinensis carolinensis) awaiting rescue on tthe Bitter Aloe (a.k.a. Red Aloe, Cape Aloe; Aloe ferox) in my garden - The Space Coast of Florida
The Red-shoulder Hawks have been making a ruckus in the neighborhood lately, and this guy winding up in the Bitter Aloe
is likely a result of their activities.
It wasn't there an hour later,
so it was either rescued by it's parents,
or all it's problems are over.
Ontario Southland SW1200RSm’s 1245- 1210 bust a move at Cami.
1245 has recently been repainted after a mishap with a farm tractor earlier in the year
On my visit to see the Seals at Ravenscar I took so many shots which sit on a hard drive doing nothing.
Grey Seal Pup trying to have some fun and games with his Mum. Unfortunately she was less than interested.
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Two of the three coyote pups vie for Mom's attention. She seemed to have her paws full. From a beautiful early morning encounter a few years ago. Happy Mothers Day!
Grey Seal - Halichoerus grypus
Every year, and at this time of year, grey seals come ashore at Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast to give birth, and to mate. Around 2,000 pups are born here each year.
The total number of pups born this year (2023) was 2,205 with the last pup being born on 21 December.
We saw this Coyote pup along with its sibling (whose ears you can see at left of frame) foraging in the wet morning grasses. It appeared to us that these two were on their own, no mother in sight. Doing a little reading, it is pretty common that Coyote pups will be on their own by August and we are nearly there now.
Tettegouche State Park MN
Looks like a seal pup that's no more than a day or two old. They grow fast, nursing on milk that's 50% fat.
I've just spent a fun few days in Norfolk watchng these adorable seal pups. This one had to be my favourite though, the face just reminds me of a pug. We were blessed with some great weather, 2 days of cloud and 2 of mostly sunshine with glorious sunrises and sunsets. Here the sun is just starting to sink behind the dunes giving this pup a golden glow!
Just in case you are wondering I was using a really long lens so I didn't disturb the seals and always made sure I didn't cut off their escape route to the sea. This one was taken at 1000mm full frame equivalent.
4 mos old Rotti pup (Shae is her name) with an old soul.
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Zebra Plains Mara Camp, Masai Mara, Kenya, November, 2019.
Young Hyena pup in the last of the light.
Halichoerus grypus
Donna Nook, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust managed site.
Today's numbers as reported by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
1607 pups, 1568 cows and 404 bulls (24/11/2023)
The pups are born at around 14 kg. They are born in autumn (October to November) with a dense, soft silky white fur; at first small, they rapidly fatten up on their mothers' extremely fat-rich milk. The milk can consist of up to 60% fat. Within a month or so they shed the pup fur, grow dense waterproof adult fur, and leave for the sea to learn to fish for themselves
This seal pup was very much a poser! Technically I think he was more interested in whether I was a seal or not, and what I was doing lying on the ground!
Fresh from the interchange with CN, OSR's Woodstock Job is quickly making a lift from the Ingersoll yard before heading to the CAMI GM plant just a few kilometres away. Later they'd make a quick run to Putnam and then head over to their namesake town of Woodstock for lunch & to interchange with CP.
Halichoerus grypus
From the 2016 November birthing season at Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast.
Every November and December, grey seals come to the Donna Nook coastline to give birth to their pups near the sand dunes.
1,957 pups were born in the 2016 season.Last season, 2018, 2,066.
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust manage this National Nature reserve.
As the females, the cows, head back to sea they mate with the bulls, however gestation does not start until the spring.