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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

03/23/2022 Wednesday's Dailies

Todays dailies are brought to you by Marilyn, posse pal Amy and Team R&B💕

Marilyn got a text from a friend with photos of a seal on the southeast side. Marilyn decided to go and check it out and was there from 11:40 to 1:00, hoping the seal would show its ventral side. Marilyn did call the hotline to report.

The seal had distinctive scars on its right side, two deeper scar and some shallower scars and an unusually thick digit on its RFF. After conferring with some of her monk seal friends, they decided this was R413 who has been getting around Oahu. Team R&B had her out on the west side several weeks ago. R413 is a female and she's looking plump.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 2:25 to 3:55 and there was one seal on island today.

When she arrived she saw a seal about 20 feet Makapuu side of 3BS. The seal was reported as an Unknown Juvenile U/J: juvenile size, possible scar on left rear side, unsure about tags and gender.

Posse pal Amy arrived at one of the busy beaches this evening at 6 pm and found two seals on shore. There were ropes and signs up, but no one on site monitoring the ropes. One of the signs was getting hit by the waves so Amy repositioned the sign with the rope.

There has to be at least 30+ people at the beach during this time and at least four professional photographers taking photos of families.

At 6:12 the first seal Lefty RG28, ID by N29 applied bleach swam away.

Then an hour later the 2nd seal Kekoa Alii, ID'd by deep S scar on his face left the site. Amy gathered the signs and rope and returned them to the gate.

Team R&B spotted a seal on the rocks alone at one of the west side

sites. They could see the natural bleach on neck and a small ding on RFF. They knew then it was Kaale RH32.

They were looking all over the area when they spotted an adult seal with an applied bleach landing near the jetty. It was R3CX Nalu, so they called the hotline since there has been so many dogs in this area.

They kept looking and saw two seals from afar landing all the way down tracks. So they hurried over to the area.

There was a male, sub-adult with cc scar on chest, a small scar on right side of face and no tags. It took them awhile but they finally figured out it was L7 from Kaulapapa.

The female was harder to figure out, she also had no tags. She had a cc scar on left butt area, subadult size. She seemed very familiar to them thinking they had seen her before on the west side with a fresh cookie bit on left rump. Later they figured out it was R608 from Kauai, but they are waiting from NOAA to confirm.

At another west side location they spotted a big female on the rocks near seal inlet. They were surprised to see it was RH76 Kala, looking plump and gorgeous. Thankfully she showed her tags.