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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.
A grey seal at a fishing pier. The grey seals wait for the fishing boats to come in, hoping to get some scraps.
It was a popular place for children to swim but it has become a gathering place for sea lions to lounge in the sun.
A Common seal youngster, was great to come across this little fella on my walk along the beach yesterday
Seal Edge, Kinder Scout, Peak District, UK
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I was up here yesterday, but unfortunately it wasn't like this.
An old one from 2015. What preceded this was the best sunrise I'd ever seen and lots of amazing photos on Fickr. Flickr was more popular then.
Elephant seals, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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I'm going to end this series for now with this newborn. At the end of the afternoon this baby seal was born in front of my eyes. It happened all within a few seconds. The highlight of the week and a moment I will never forget. Here you see the first encounter of the mother with her baby.
This will also be my last upload as I will be going on holidays for three weeks as of next week. Hopefully coming back with beautiful pictures!!
breakin' seal? i do not use punctuation in most of my writing. i like to leave it open to allow different readings.
i do use it sometimes with some titles, just not here.
A few more from the Grey Seal project. Most have now returned to sea so my trip tomorrow may well be the last for this season. I'll hopefully have time to work with them again when they return at the end of this year.
Haha! talk about looking comfy while sunbathing :)
Seal taking in the sunshine at Machrihanish beach.
My encounter with the seals on Horsey Beach will stay with me forever. It was breathtaking to see and hear them!
Last year I spent some time photographing seal pups. This one was just born and still has part of the umbilical cord attached.
I'll keep posting photos of the Otters where I can (if I manage to get any more of them), but here's some Grey Seal images from the Winter project...
Grey seals with three pups (one behind the mother) on a very small island north west of Kerrera.
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Elephant Seals have been inhabiting the coast of Highway 1 for years, and they continue to be a famous stop while visitors are in the Cambria area. Elephant seals were hunted to the brink of extinction by the end of the 19th century, but numbers have since recovered. Here a couple of bulls are fighting for dominance. Cambria, California, USA, June 2015
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One of the Horsey Gap Grey Seals.
A stark memory from my childhood was of these lovely creatures being slaughtered by men with clubs. I remember the sea of red, the destruction on the beach. They were skinned there and then with the remains left for the gulls. I also remember being a very angry 8 year old that day. Fortunately, at least in England those days are over.
In Scotland seals can still be shot by fishery owners to "protect their stock" whatever that means. Numbers are dropping year on year with less than 100 reported last year.
In Canada however quotas are set for various seal species each year at over 400,000 allowed to be killed commercially, with lesser numbers also destroyed in Namibia and Greenland. I can understand the native people doing this for survival, at least they use every single part of the seal. However for the fur trade there is sadly still a huge market. Hopefully one day we will see this end.
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.
Black-necked Stilts ~ Playa San Pedrito ~ Manzanillo, Mexico
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