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Monday, June 7, 2021

06/07/2021 Monday Monk Seal Dailies

Today's dailies are brought to you by Team T&D and Team R&B💕. In other news, some very sad news it was reported one of our 2020 seals RM90 was found dead on the windward side. Here is the link to the Hawaii News Now. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/06/08/mele-hawaiian-monk-seal-dies-just-1-year-old-noaa-says/?fbclid=IwAR2AVcxTMcDSkoOD2HnbBM82yW9OBXF1854dX0Ygp6laovGl-LRDdJKvBTs As soon as NOAA has more information I am sure they will share their findings.

AND ON A HAPPY NOTE: Today is Kaale's 5th Birthday. Happy Birthday butthead!

Team R&B found RN44 sleeping on the rocks at pokai bay. He was alone and resting peacefully. There was a small group of folks there observing him Turned out there was a fight between some homeless folks, Team R&B warned the group to be careful.

They also spotted a U/U foraging at the jetty in the bay. The seal had a lot of green and they could not get an ID so it was reported as an unknown. Team R&B left the area since the fight was continuing to escalate.

Team R&B did the Ka'ena West walk and came up empty again. (that's because they all on the other side). On their walk they did spot a seal at Yoks so on their way back they stopped to check. It was RG28 Leflty sleeping peacefully on shore and alone. They probably wouldn't have spotted him if they hadn't stopped to throw away their trash. They saw some eagle rays cruising close to shore.

Team T&D hiked Ka'ean Point today, their first fins was a real surprise! They found Kauai Kolohe RK36 who hasn't been seen in quite sometime. Their next find was Luana RN58, she is looking nice and healthy but neither of them think she's pregnant. They found RL74 who still had a hook, line trailing, leader with a pigtail. All the appropriate calls were made with photos.

From there they made it out to the point and found a seal doing the hippo float in one of the pools, it

was Ka'ena RO40. Luckily hust as they got to the point a seal was leaving with an applied bleach. Team T&D reached out to Team R&B and with their help they figured out it was the birthday boy Kaale RH32. While out at the point they received a text that a NOAA team were coming out to try and cut RL74's line. So Team T&D hightailed it back and patiently waited. NOAA Team arrived and it was over before anyone knew what was happening. Even RL74 popped her head up once the line was cut and then put her head back down and went back to resting like nothing happened.

While Tammy waited with RL74, Dave walked back to their truck. He mentioned on his walk back he saw two seal where there was previously one. Lesley went down and ID'd Holokai RG40 had joined RK36 Kauai Kolohe.

Team T&D's last stop was to see RL42 Leia and Puka P03. Tammy last laid eyes on the pup four days ago and was amazed how much he has grown in that short time. While hanging out, Lesley had gone to check down the beach and found RL98 Lina. Seems they had a very good seal day at the point today.

RN44