11/11/2021 Thursday Monk Seal Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Marilyn, posse pal Paul H, and Team R&B💕.   In yesterdays' news Marilyn was unable to send her Rabbit Island observation due to internet problems. A separate post with yesterdays sighting was made.  Todays Rabbit Island post will be below.

I got a text today from diver and posse pal Paul that he saw a very young seal on the east side hauled out. He thought the tag number had a "21" and sure enough when his photos arrived there was the tag shot. It was little PO4 aka Manana roto tag 215.  Thank you Paul for sending in the photos and giving us a chance to see this little girl hauled out.

Team R&B started their day early and since it was a holiday ( Thank you Veterans) the beaches were

crowded with people, dogs, paddle boarders, swimmers and snorkelers. At the bay they managed to find two seals foraging amongst all the boats.  There was RL20 and R3CX out there busy trying to dodge the boats and folks. 

They did another visit and it was even worse, the water was really choppy as the winds had picked up. They didn't see any of the seals land today. However they did hear the lifeguards announce "It is against federal laws"  good someone is out there looking out for either the seals of dolphins.

Next stop they found the three amigos once again. There was RH32 Kaale with a homeless dude who had fish. They watched and seemed the dude was trying to get sand turtles. He would toss pieces of the fish near the seal, pick up a wad of sand, search the sand for turtles. This went on for a bit, Kaale was very away of the dude's presence.

The seal in the middle was RG28 Lefty snoozing. The remaining seal was R407 Kawika who may be starting his molt.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island today from 12:40 to 2:55 and initially found three seals until a fourth hauled out later.

On the Lanikai side of LPB was an U/SA: subadult to adult size, newer coat, very light belly and possibly two tags. Marilyn thinks this might be a female but could not confirm.

On LPB nearer the 1BS was an A/M: adult size,  old coat, male belly and one tag on the RRF. He has finally started molting which appeared to be about 10% on the upper chest area.

At SRI was the J/M that she has been seeing lately. Juvenile size, old coat, with lots of green, yellow male belly and no tags.

Marilyn had seen a young seal foraging in the water near middle cliff. She thinks this is the same juvenile female hauled out between 3BS and SRI at about 1pm. She then galumphed along the beach to get near the J/M. The J/F was juvenile size, new coat, very light female belly and no tags. She was a little larger than the J/M, best guess she is one of the 2020 pups that never got tagged. 

PO4 aka Manana #215

LifeGuards

Nalu R3CX

RL20 around the boats

Kaale

Lefty RG28

R407 Kawika

Rabbit Island