Seals and Sea Lions
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San Francisco’s Seal Rocks rise from the Pacific Ocean surf just off the shore of Lands End as the sun begins to set on the western edge of the city.
Seals eagerly await some fish scraps as fisherman clean and prepare their fish for market in Valparaíso Chile.
This will be our final photograph from Bicheno. The sun was moving in and out of cloud cover for most of the afternoon, but here the brilliant sunshine illuminates Alligator Rock which has an active fur seal colony. The Australian fur seal is the fourth rarest seal species in the world.
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We visited the island where the elephant seals live. I was surprised that the penguins don't seem to care about the seals, even though seals eat penguins.
Leaf Curling Spider (Phonognatha graeffei)
It looks like Mama has eggs. She was in the top part of the leaf with the lower part 'sealed'.
Back to Terschelling. During high tide we made a nice boat trip and ran into these seals. It was a strip with hundreds of them sunbathing, amazing. I choose to zoom into just these two buddies instead of showing you the full strip. Have a nice day
Grey seal - Halichoerus grypus
From the 2016 November birthing season at Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast.
At the last count this year, 2019, 2,168 pups have been born.
Funny Elephant Seal was throwing so much dirt on it's back that some got into it's eyes and mouth. It then started bellowing as if some other seal did the dirty deed.
Haha! talk about looking comfy while sunbathing :)
Seal taking in the sunshine at Machrihanish beach.
I shot these Sealion's in Coos Bay on the beautiful Oregon coast.
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My encounter with the seals on Horsey Beach will stay with me forever. It was breathtaking to see and hear them!
This was probably the most challenging subject to photograph on St Paul Island. In addition to a very flat and dull light, the seals may look cute to some people, but to me, they will never be as cute as the young pribilof artic foxes. Let me know if you can find a favorite among these or a cute one in this series.
This Common (Harbour) Seal was just sliding down the sea-weed as we passed in the Zodiac and the angle of view makes it look like she's smiling. It occurs round the coasts of much of the Northern Hemisphere and is the most widely distributed species of pinniped (seals, sea lions, walruses). There are many subspecies but the one found in Britain is the nominate subspecies; vitulinus. They often haul out on rocks at low tide so they can have the cushion of sea-weed to lie on, so they are less likely to damage themselves if they have to make a dash for the water. At high tide the rocks are bare, uncomfortable and dangerous for loafing seals. Most baby seals are white and fluffy but Common Seals moult while they are in utero so have adult-type fur by the time they are born in June and July. Its scientific name Phoca vitulinus, given by Linnaeus translates as "seal like a calf" perhaps because Linnaeus thought the Common Seal had a more calf-like face than Grey Seal.