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Monday, July 27, 2020

07/27/2020 Monday Act-With-Care Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team Billand and Marilyn.

Team Billand got to the outfall before 8 am, sunny skies, hot and humid, hard to believe yesterday we dodged a major hurricane. But there they spotted their favorite forager in the ourfall. Ka'ale was doing 6 minute dives and spent some time playing with a stryo foam plate. They left him at the outfall doing his thing.
Later after 12 they found him hauled out at a nearby beach alone. He is looking very green, very fat and hook free. There were a couple of folks at the beach, far enough away to not bother him.

At 9:30 they found RF28 easily ID'd by his applied bleach V28. He was on the rocks snoozing all alone. Team Billand was a aware of a person who didn't seem safe to be around so they left the area. He wasn't near or aware of the seal.
They returned at 11:30 and RF28 was still in the same area and alone.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island today from 1:40 to 3 pm. She saw nine seals today another big day.

There were four seal between LPB and 1BS area.

Seal 1 - unidentified juvenile female with older coat, female belly and some green, two tags and what looks to be an applied bleach on left middle side. This very well could be RJ30 Wailea who has an applied N30 or RH76 Kala with an applied N77 bleach.
Seal 2- is most likely PO5 based on weaner size and coloration with no tags. Marilyn never got a good view of the belly but appears to be a recent weaner. PO5 has been given the nickname Makanalani
Seal 3 - adult size, male belly and two tags. Marilyn is pretty sure there was an applied N11 bleach which would make this RG32. He arrived to join the others around 1:50 and visited Seal 1, then Seal 2 (PO5) and then Seal 4 in turn. He finally settled down next to Seal 4.
Seal 4 - juvenile to subadult size, female belly, new coat and two tags.

Between the 3BS and SRI were 3 seals:

Seal 5 - juvenile to subadult seal, might be female, and new coat. This seal entered the water at 3 pm
Seal 6 - adult male, older coat, male belly, not sure about tags. He was initially alone but then galumphed over to SRI to join Seal 7.
Seal 7 - molting adult female, most likely RL12 Aukai. Molt is primarily on the upper chest area.

The Makapuu side of SRI were two seals:
Seal 8 - adult male with darker belly.
Seal 9 - weaner male with yellowish belly no tags. Real question is if its PO1 or PO3.

Ka'ale RH32