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Sunday, June 28, 2020

06/28/2020 Sunday Act-with-Care (96) Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team Billand and Marilyn.
I am also including a couple of photos that were posted today on "My Kailua" facebook page of a hooked seal on Moku Nui. The U/M has a hook on the outside of his mouth (good news). Unsure if anyone will be able to get to him and hopefully he'll shake it off. If and when I hear anything more about this I'll keep you posted.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island today for about 2 hours. She observed five seals.
Mom and PO5 were on the rock flats (Lanikai side) of LPB. There was one nursing session. Marilyn also made a correction to PO5 age. Born on June 5th do only 23 days old :-) (those extra days a big deal when it comes to pups)

Unknown J/M alone on left point beach. Looks it could be two or three years old with an older coat, tags and a lighter yellow male belly.
PO1 Kahukai and PO3 Momona were about 50 ft Makapuu side of the 3rd blue sign. PO1 was there first and a little bit later PO2 hauled out nearby. Both here ID'd by their weaner size and coloration both without tags. PO3 is losing some of his baby fat but is still substantially bigger than PO1. Nice to see them together.

Team Billand came across Kaale RH32 at the outfall just after 6 am this morning. He was up to his usual bad habits stealing fish. They stayed for a bit and when it was clear he wasn't ready to haul out they left.
Team Billand returned to the area after 11 and they saw Ka'ale hauling out at one of the crowded beaches. People were getting really close to him all for taking a photo. They watched and called the hotline to let them know how crowded it was. This has to be extremely frustrating to deal with. One guy came out of the water walked right up to Ka'ale who lunged and barked at him.

Finally and thankfully volunteer Melina arrived and she immediately dealt with the crowd control placed signs. Team Billand left after Melina arrived to handle the situation.

Team Billand found Kekoa Alii RK72 hauled out on the rocks. He spotted another seal and took off from lower rocks.
There was a seal foraging off shore in the big surf. Then before they knew it the seal was on mid rocks. It took them a bit to ID Nalu R3CX who finally showed off his tags. He stayed on mid rocks alone.

They spotted little RL20 Kalua coming from the west. He came in spotted Kekoa and galumphed up by him. A big set came in pushing both of them around. Kekos sniffed out Kalua, they played a bit and then Kekoa took off.
Kalua fought the waves, hiding in the rocks and then finally goint to the right on the sand patch where he stayed.

hooked male seal on Moku Nui