MonkSealMania.blogspot.com: 04/29/2022 Friday's Daily

Friday, April 29, 2022

04/29/2022 Friday's Daily

Todays dailies are brought to you by Marilyn and Team R&B💕

Marilyn viewed Rabbit Island from 10:50 to 12:35 and there were two seals on island today.

When Marilyn first arrived and setting up she saw a seal on the waterfront rocks between 3BS and SRI getting ready to enter the water. By the time she had the camera ready she only got a couple of photos before it entered the water. Marilyn thinks this is the same A/M that hauled out later.

About 11 am she became aware of a seal moving along in front of the waterfront rocks near the 3BS. This seal is labeled S/M subadult male.

S/M: subadult size, lighter yellowish male belly and at least one red tag on RRF.

A/M: adult size, gray male belly and at least one tag on its RRF.

There was some brief interactions between the two before they both entered the water at about 12:05.

Marilyn stayed for another half hour but there were no other seals.

Team R&B started their day at the bay searching for critters and initially didn't see any. Then they happen to notice movement on the left and sure enough there was a seal. It turned out to be big boy R3CX Nalu. He is looking great, no bleeding seen. He still looks like he's going to molt on his side.

And as luck would have it there was another seal to the right, flip flopping in the rocks, there was little RM31 Kai. He seems to have all kind of lumps and scratches on his body. Maybe jelly fish?? who knows?

Team R&B got a call from a friend of a seal on the rocks by the bushes and there were lots of people in the area. They called the hotline.

When they got to the area, Team R&B saw people up close taking photos, the seal left the rocks and entered the water. They were able to ID RG28 Lefty. They watched him go to the reef, check it out and then moved on.

One of the folks that knew Team R&B help out with the seal told them there was another seal at another spot. So they ran over to find no seal on shore, but there was a very fat male on the rocks. There was RH32 Kaale in a spot they had never seen him before. They informed the hotline and left for an appointment.

At another west side location there was Pe'ekai RP84 on lower rocks. He is a real cutie, doing just fine.

He moved higher up due to the rising surf.

Then they spotted two seal galumphing up to the right of seal inlet. One was Lefty RG28 and he was chasing after RH76 Kala. She wasn't happy with his advances, swatted him hard with her hind flippers. At one point it looked like a round house kick. He just kept after her until she moved away. He followed her and rolled on his side as she whooped at him. Good job Kala.

Rabbit Island