MonkSealMania.blogspot.com: 04/03/2022 Sunday's Dailies

Sunday, April 3, 2022

04/03/2022 Sunday's Dailies

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

Posse pals Justin T. & Christine L. saw 2 seals today. M26 Nohea identified by her flipper tags M26 & M27 who turns 2 years old this Wednesday 4/6. RJ06 Aki with tags J06 & J07. He was born on May 4, 2017 on Manana (Rabbit Island) wildlife preserve to RB12 Sadie, spotted on Oahu proper on 10/17/2018 by Marylyn 1 month after his first molt and then spotted around 5/20/2021 by Gayle. Has he been reported since 5/20/2021? (not sure since we don't know what gets reported to the hotline).

He looks in good condition on his front, tail, ventral, dorsal, and left side (He was laying on his right side). They sent HMAR a bunch of photos with his current body condition. He still has both his flipper tags J06 & J07.

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 12:45 to 2:50 and there were three seals on island.

Alone near the 1BS was a S/M: subadult size, yellowish gray male belly and two red tags.

Together near SRI were an adult male and RF34 Pua.

A/M: adult size, male belly and possibly two red tags. The few times Marilyn saw the belly it was covered in sand so she can't say much about the color.

RF34: large adult size, gray female belly, two red tags and her right side scar.

The A/M stayed near Pua but they were seen actually making contact with each other.

The S/F that Marilyn has been seeing on Rabbit Island pretty often wasn't seen today.

Posse pal Amy stopped by to check and for Kekoa Alii in his favorite bathtub this afternoon. After

getting pummeled by a few waves he hauled up higher and showed the small hook and some line still attached to his right side below his right fore flipper. Volunteer was informed and Dana from HMSPO. Unfortunately Amy did not get a photo of the hook or line.

Team R&B arrived at the outfall and it took awhile to find a seal. Just to the right there was RH32 Kaale swimming into the outfall. He began foraging and went out of the outfall just off area to forage in a school of fish. Around 9:15 Kaale left the area and was heading to tracks.

Team R&B watched the area from a distance, he passed the swimmers who moved out of his way, then headed toward the camp site area, where a black dog lives. They watched as Kaale tried to haul out and this dog came out of nowhere running into the water. Kaale saw the dog and took off, never landing.

RH32 went to the rocks, but couldn't land as the fishers were all out on the rocks, then he returned to the outfall and went back to eating. Team R&B called the hotline and DOCARE explaining the what had taken place.

Team R&B headed over to another west side site and tho their delight there were two seals in the

shallows snoozing together. The adult was R3CX Nalu and the little dude was RP84 Pe'ekai.

From there they decided to make the Ka'ena West trek. For the first mile there was nothing but at the last spot there was one seal. It was RL42 Leia, she was alone resting peacefully snoozing.

It took them a bit to make sure it was her, they had to wait for her to move. It took forever but finally the waves hit and she moved, they confirmed RL42.

On their way out of Ka'ena West they spotted another seal. The seal had three weird scratched on its back area, but they couldn't see if it had tags. Seems to be about three years old, so sub-adult it also had a scar on its left neck area. Their thoughts were this is RL70 Leina.