View allAll Photos Tagged Seals
Grey Seal pup at the Natureland sanctuary we visited while away at my mum's caravan last week. He will now be enjoying his new life back in the wild as he was to be released earlier this week :)
Elton John has a song called Grey Seal on his Yellow Brick Road Album, though it was Bernie Taupin who wrote the lyrics "And tell me, grey seal, how does it feel, to be so wise, to see through eyes that only see what's real?"
Grey Seals have quite a restricted world distribution around Britain and Northern Europe including Iceland, with separate populations in the Baltic and across in New England and Newfoundland. Molecular studies have shown that the European populations have not bred with the American populations for at least a million years, so might merit being classified as separate species.
I photographed this one off the Northumberland coast where large numbers breed on the Farne Islands. It can be distinguished from the Common or Harbour Seal by its nostrils that are more widely separated at the base, and by the Roman nose profile without a forehead dip. Its scientific name Halichoerus grypus translates as hook-nosed sea-pig.
Northern elephant seals captured at the Point Piedras Blancas Wildlife Sanctuary, central California coast.
A Juvenille Grey Seal - photographed in Sennen Harbour.
The 'Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust' informs me that -
"This pup was actually responded to by British Divers Marine Life Rescue. It was assessed (found to be of sufficient weight and in good health) and so was relocated to a quieter beach where it could rest up)
Copyright Andrew Hocking 2018
A young grey seal pup at Donna Nook National Wildlife Reserve, Lincolnshire. I've not had time to post anything from my trip until now. It was great to meet up with 3 of my Flickr contacts - Jane (who I knew would be there), Andrew and Maria (a lovely surprise and so good to see you again). I learned later that yet another contact, Lynda, was there too but I had missed her.
Image taken from behind the viewing fence as per Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust guidelines.
This Picture is © Copyrighted.
None of these images may be reproduced and or used in any form of publication, print or the Internet without my written permission
Some of the fantastically shaped, weathered gritstone tors of Seal Edge on the northern side of Kinder Scout.
This is one of a colony of seals located along the bay at Rathlin Island. The amazing island is a nature wonderland with seals, puffins and numerous other birds. The island is located just off the Antrim coast in Northern Ireland, and should not be missed! View On Black