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My last seal shot for now. I shall visit them again in the summer and hopefully get to see some new-born pups in November.
Grey seal pups are born with a white coat known as a 'lanugo'.
The mother seals only suckle their pups for 17 to 23 days. Her milk contains up to 50 to 60% fat, ten times more than a Jersey cow’s milk. This helps the pups gain weight rapidly and develop a layer of blubber. Pups go from their birthweight of around 28 lb. (13 kg) to 100 lb. (45 kg) in just three weeks. Once the pup has suckled the mother leaves, never to return.
Pups then stay behind on the beach alone for around another three weeks to moult their white coats and grow a shorter adult waterproof coat. During this time they fast, living off their fat reserves. When they are ready the pups go into the sea and teach themselves to fish.
If the pup is a bull it could live for up to 25 years, whereas cows live for 35 years.
This is a photo from a couple of months back on our visit to Donna Nook. There was also some seal pups that had been born while we were there and many that were just days old.
I love to just sit and watch the seal pups. It has to be one of my favourite times of year.
All my photos are taken with a 600mm telephoto lens, so I am a good distance away from all the seals.
Norfolk
January 2023
probably a few weeks old, this is one of the many grey seal pups that have been born on to the beach at Donna Nook nature reserve, East Lincs, UK....November 2018
A pair of former CP Rail SW1200RS pups switch the CAMI plant. After a day of chasing an RS-18u / FP9A combo between Putnam and Woodstock finding this pair switching CAMI was the icing on the cake.
Conrail pup SW8M 8683, ex. LV 269, heads east on WLAL19 at Steel Tower on April 12, 1982. Kodachrome 64 scan.
The Shuttleworth Collection Sopwith Pup with Le Prieur rockets for bringing down Zeppelins... (It doesn't fly with these fitted, static display only)
This is Trace. He is one of Rio's pups. Yesterday he and the others were introduced to the world of milk in a pan. They got messy with it. LOL In a few days, they will be 4 weeks old.
My pup Pepper was enjoying her new Christmas toy on Christmas day and I was enjoying my new camera lens!
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It was a real privilege to spend some time with friends today capturing a few images of the gorgeous seal pups on the Saltee Islands.
I was at the beach photographing seals, when I came across this seal pup. I was sitting on a rock for a good 20 minutes photographing seals out in the water when I finally realized it was laying at the hide tide mark about 20 feet from me. I thought for sure it was dead; it didn’t look like it was breathing, and I assumed it washed up with the tide. About 30 minutes after that, I was a bit surprised when it suddenly woke up from its nap and gave me a look. It didn’t seem that concerned about my presence and he eventually made his way down near the water line for another nap. When the tide rose a bit more, he eventually gave in and decided to swim off.
RD14541. ROUGH PUP on display at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum which is at the Talyllyn Railway's Tywyn Wharf Station in mid-Wales.
ROUGH PUP an 'Alice Class' 1ft 10¾in gauge 'Quarry Hunslet'
0-4-0ST built in 1892 for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis in North Wales.
Tuesday, 25th April, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.