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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
Eat, sleep, squeak repeat. That's the life so far, but soon to change as their eyes are opening and getting more mobile. They will soon be all over the place :)
It's spring and there's no shortage of harbor seal pups on the rocks along the Oregon Coast. They will quadruple in size in about a month of nursing before heading out on their own.
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!
Here's a shot that I took a little while back, at Donna Nook, in Lincolnshire. A great place to see the Grey Seal Mothers & youngsters up close, without unduly disturbing them.
This pup was born & being raised beyond the beach, just in front of the walkway, so he must have been used to posing for a photo.
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.
A United Parcel Service “pup” trailer on a TTX spine car speeds by milepost 550 on an eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train between Colores and Hermosa, Wyoming, on May 28, 2009, as seen in a panned photograph.
I visited Ravenscar at Robin Hoods Bay today to see the Grey Seals who have Pups at this time of year. Nothing quite tugs the heartstrings like those big, dark eyes!
Donna Nook
Grey seals return every Autumn between late October and early December to give birth and mate. The bulls mate with the cows, after the cows have given birth to a single pup,
After mating,having fattened up the pup on their fat rich milk sufficiently for the pup to survive until it also returns to te sea, the female returns to the sea. The fertilised egg does not start developing until much later so the birth will be at the same time the following year i.e. an 11 month gestation period
Grey Seal Pup
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I’ve never seen the pups before- what a treat! Yellow-bellied marmots, Shasta Valley Wildlife Area, California
For New Years I have re-issued a couple from southwestern Ontario - "Pups in Flight" . . . the CP Galt Subdivision westbound pickup (mainline local) with 4 - pups exits Woodstock, Ontario with the sweet sound that only a pack of SW1200RS's in run 8 can make - June 6, 1976.
Early start and long drive...but it was worth it!! Seal Pup, matter of hours old, resting on the dunes after being in the water! Who says Seals Pups have big eyes!!!
I saw my first pack of wild dogs in Selous, now Nyerere, almost twenty years ago. In February this year I made a return visit in the hope of seeing some more dogs. We had a good sighting on my second day and found the dogs post hunt looking for a nice place to rest. We returned to the spot once the day trippers had gone and spent some quality time watching the pups play.
A trip to Nyerere (formally Selous) National Park. Emerald season February 2023
Halichoerus grypus
Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast
At birth pups have soft white fur and weigh about 14 kg. The mother's milk contains up to 60% fat, so pups grow very quickly, gaining about 2 kg in weight each day. This pup would have been about 10 days old has put on weight and is now losing its all white fur and transforming to a grey coat.
Gorgeous wee seal pup on the slipway this morning very content with me till the dogs came barking and scared it away sadly
The juveniles and pups-wolves under two years old do not have any permanent positions within the pack hierarchy. They obey orders of their parents and older brothers and sisters, but their relationships with each other may change. During their play, they are trying to find out who will eventually be “top wolf” in their age group.
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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.
After many hours of patient and diligent tracking and stalking in the most inhospitable of conditions imaginable I finally caught up with and managed to photograph this young seal in it's native habitat. (The Natural History Museum London, cooling filter and weather effect added later in Photoshop.)