March 28, 2019 Monk Seal Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Lesley and Melody. Lesley's Ka'ena update is part 2 of the dailies.  

Melody headed out this morning to the westside and at her first stop there weren't any seals, BUT she decided to wait for about 20 minutes and low and behold a critter came swimming in. A head popped looking around to see if there were any other critters, did a little vocalizing and just when Melody thought he might haul out, the critter took off. 
So Melody left and took off to the next stop she spotted a critter and it took her a bit to get an ID. But after studying the photos and a little help from one of the volunteers she ID'd RIP RR70. 

Next there were 2 seals already hauled out, one high up on the rocks and another she happen to spot just as it was coming in and making its way through the lower tide pools, The small female on the high rocks was ID'd as sweet little Kawena RH36. The other critter who his day in the tide pool was Kekoa Alii RK72. They pretty much ignored each other and snoozed away the day in the hot sun.

Last stop for Melody, she found one seal and was told this was one of PvKauai RW02 favorite spots. She had a hard time getting an ID since he wasn't forthcoming with showing his tags. But after taking a closer look at some scar and finally a quick peek at his tag she was able to ID RW02. 
There was some tree trimming going on at the park and RW02 seemed to be checking out the trucks and the workers.  Once the workers were made aware of the seal they were very respectful of his space.