MonkSealMania.blogspot.com: Jan 22, 2023 Sunday's Dailies

Sunday, January 22, 2023

Jan 22, 2023 Sunday's Dailies

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

Marilyn was able to make it out to the pier after several days of one to no seals and high winds. Well today there were six during her observations.

Alone on the waterfront down from the 1BS was a Juvenile Female: juvenile size, older coat, yellowish brown female belly and at least two red tags. This could be RQ44 Mahina, but Marilyn couldn't tell if there were three tags.

Between 3BS and SRI there was a group of three seals:

Adult Female #1: adult size, light tannish female belly and two red tags.

Next to A/F 1 was an Adult Male: adult size, gray male belly and two red tags.

Next to them was an Adult Female #2: subadult to adult size, light gray female belly and two red tags.

At about 2:15 was an Unknown Adult: hauled out between 3BS and the group of three seals. The UA was large adult size, apparently dark coat. The UA never showed its ventral side so gender is unknown and not sure about tags.

Alone on RRB was an Unknown Subadult: subadult size, light gray belly, gender and tags unknown.

Tammy decided to hike out to the point to see the huge north west swell. The waves were impressive, most likely the biggest she has seen at the point.

She spotted a banded bird, most likely an escapee from the Kuakala Game Management area.

Then she was super surprised to see a seal hauled out. It was R604 high up on the beach.

Team R&B headed out to secrets and walked out to find two seals on shore way up by the Naupaka bushes. There was RK72 Kekoa Alii and RG28 Lefty, both were resting comfortably. They called the hotline.

Then they went all the way around the signs which took them some time and saw at the other end of the cove a volunteer had arrived.

Kekoa Alii started to move down a bit and Lefty stayed by the bushes.

They also saw the amazing waves today, some from way out shooting up on the shore over and over.

On their travels they saw a plover on the road resting. Also a very cute duck on the rocks.

Next they headed over to the outfall to check. They not sure how they spotted it but there was a seal foraging. They watched and took lots of pics and finally spotted a signature NB on left side of his face, it was R3CX Nalu. They never saw him haul out

They only saw a few dolphins out there today.

Team R&B drove around looking at the waves today. Over by the bay the waves were huge! One came smashing up over the wall, tossing rocks over and flooding the pavement. One poor guy had just parked his car. Another wave hit the homeless camp, pulling things out from the campsite. Then the cats who live in the rocks, flew out drenched, they all scrambled to higher ground.

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