07/31/2021 Saturday Monk Seal Dailies

 

Today's dailies are brought to you by Marilyn and Team R&B💕

Team R&B are ending the month with a very quiet seal day, with a total of three critters all day. They started their day at 6 am at the bay. They did see a seal briefly swimming about, then they lost sight of it. They went back later and the area was packed with people. 

At another west side location they saw RH76 Kala alone and hidden in the rocks. Her shark bite wounds are looking pink but healing. She was the only seal seen there today, away from the boys. There were lots of fishermen in the area.

After lots of looking and disappointment they were happy to find one more seal. There was Kaale

RH32 snoozing alone. He is another one that is very very green, hopefully molting coming soon. He is looking good, nothing out of the ordinary.  

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 11:55 to 1:45 and there were four seals on island during Marilyn's watch. In the back of LPB next to the rock flats was an U/U. This seal was mostly hidden behind the rocks and only showed part of its ventral. The ventral was very light and Marilyn would guess this to be RL37 but she could not see any definitive markers.

Nearer the rock flats was an A/F adult size, lighter gray female belly, new coat, and two tags. Not far from her was a seal labeled unknown subadult (U/S) Subadult size, old coat, 2 tags and yellowish belly.

Initially closer to the 1BS part of LPB was a S/F subadult size, female belly, partly molted and two tags. The molt looks to be about 35%, mostly on the belly. She moved around a lot between the unknown subadult.

U/U swimming by the bay

dolphins

RH32 Kaale

RH76 Kala

Rabbit Island