January 16, 2019 Monk Seal Dailies:

Todays dailies are brought to you by Team Billand, Lesley and Tammy of Team T&D. 

Lesley's quick update: 

I had a busy morning and between a back and forth I saw a seal hauling out at CE Pt.

Went I went by to check on it I found a beautiful nice and plump RN58 "Luana"

Some of "our" mamas are getting big, I wonder if bets have already started on what island has the first pup, who's pupping first on Oahu, etc...  More tomorrow

Team Billand was out at 8am when they spotted a little seal, scars on right side of face, and visible tah H92.  They called the hotline and stayed with RH92. She is healthy and quite a little beauty to observe. Volunteers arrive and they waited. Mark from NOAA came and bleached her. It took some time as she kept moving. 
Team Billand left to find other seals, but they were skunked. They looked everywhere and didn't find anyone else. Guess the boyz are off to a new adventure. 

They headed back and rechecked on RH92. She was fine even with people playing to the right. Her new applied bleach N92 was visible!  Thanks NOAA, thanks Mark.

Tammy went out to Ka'ena Point solo today. She only found two critters, RK88 Puna and R330 Squinty. When she first spotted Squinty he was doing his best hippo imitation, it took 90 minutes before he rolled and finally showed his NB on his chest for an ID.

 Luana

 RH92

 look closely there is a N92 bleach there

 R330 Squinty playing a hippo 

 RK88 Puna