December 26, 2023 Tuesday's Dailies

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

They started their day at the bay and as they were walking they spotted an adult seal. It had a clean coat, one red tags and was hurrying away from the rocks. They weren't able to get an ID.

Then they heard a dog barking loudly, so they ran over to see what was happening. There was a brown dog from the homeless camp off leash barking at RH48 Lei Ola.  Lei Ola was scurrying on the rocks to get away from the dog.  A woman with the dog was in the pond and never attempted to keep the dog away from the seal.

Lei Ola entered the water before she started barking back at the dog, mouth wide open. Team R&B was trying to piece together what was happening and witnessed Lei Ola fighting back and entering the water.

Of course this was stressful especially since Lei Ola lost her pup from a dog attack. There was another woman there who had been watching told them the dog didn't bite the seal.  

Also at the bay they saw RL20 Kalua foraging alone by the wall. In the morning he never landed.

Later in the afternoon they found RL20 was alone on the rocks, there were no dogs in the area at that time.

At another west side location they found RW02 PvKauai alone at seal inlet.

Then they spotted two more seal in the water interacting, probably playing and fighting. They got the tag shots of RM31 and his brother RP30 Puka. The two of them came up to lower rocks, but never landed. As quick as they were there, then they were gone.

Lastly at Kahe they found RH32 Kaale. He was alone resting on the rocks.

RH48

RL20 am

RL20 pm

RW02

RM31 & RP30

RM31

RP30

RH32

HMMA Update from June 29th

The morning began with a call from Warren at 0530 reporting Rocky (RH58) at White Plains Beach. She was ID'ed by the scar over her left eye and natural bleach on her left fore flipper. Rocky may have overnighted. At 0906 HPD called with a report of a seal in Kaaawa. North Sector Manager Don responded but found no seal present. Another call came in at 0906 from Carola at the Mokuleia pup site. She reported that Nihoa (R912) and pup were not in the SPZ when she arrived for her shift at 0800. Mom and pup hauled out about 2/10 of a mile to the east. Carola checked back in at 1300 with a report of a seal and dog interaction. Kathleen was on duty when she saw a woman walking her dog along the beach unleashed. The dog approached Nihoa while she was outside of the SPZ. Based on the observations made by volunteers it is believed that Nihoa bit the dog. There were no apparent injuries to Nihoa and pup and it is unknown if the dog has suffered any injuries.

 As a reminder please keep all dogs on a leash. Monk seals can injure dogs if they feel threatened or are attacked. Contact between seals and dogs may transmit diseases that can be dangerous to both the dog and the entire seal population.