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Today is #InternationalSealDay - So I may be sharing some of my favorite Seal pics taken over the last few years:
One of the truly special places in Monterey Bay is Hopkins Marine Station, which has a restricted cove and beach, allowing many of the local Harbor Gals a safe place to Pup.
Around here, activity is pretty high in the late March through April time frame.
Some more Mom & Pup moments from April 19, 2025:
Today is #InternationalSealDay - So I may be sharing some of my favorite Seal pics taken over the last few years:
One of the truly special places in Monterey Bay is Hopkins Marine Station, which has a restricted cove and beach, allowing many of the local Harbor Gals a safe place to Pup.
Around here, activity is pretty high in the late March through April time frame.
This live birth moment was in mid-April of last year.
Today is #InternationalSealDay - So I may be sharing some of my favorite Seal pics taken over the last few years:
One of the truly special places in Monterey Bay is Hopkins Marine Station, which has a restricted cove and beach, allowing many of the local Harbor Gals a safe place to Pup.
These two were from March of last year.
Today is #InternationalSealDay - So I may be sharing some of my favorite Seal pics taken over the last few years:
One more Sea Lion Sealapalooza before heading out with the S/O for a movie.
Today is #InternationalSealDay - So I may be sharing some of my favorite Seal pics taken over the last few years:
The last few summers Monterey has been host to a rather large collection of migratory Sea Lions, usually taking over the stretch of beaches between Fisherman's Warf and San Carlos Beach from late July to early September.
Unlike some of the other Seals that hang here, Seal Lions are not chill...
Or quiet...
Today is #InternationalSealDay - So I may be sharing some of my favorite Seal pics taken over the last few years:
Here is one more Elephant Seal pic from Año Nuevo State Park - We almost did not spot him on the walk down to the beach. You wouldn't think that something that large could blend in, but He was giving it his best try.
Today is #InternationalSealDay - So I may be sharing some of my favorite Seal pics taken over the last few years:
Here is a another Elephant Seal pic from Año Nuevo State Park - What a nose!
Today is #InternationalSealDay - So I may be sharing some of my favorite Seal pics taken over the last few years:
For example, this proud dude was blocking our return path at Año Nuevo State Park over the Xmas holidays in 2024; and while the guide had to provide us an alternative way back, he rewarded us with this pose.
Sad note - There is an Avian Flu outbreak among the seals at the park this year, so keep them in your thoughts.
“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”
—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”
—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…
—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008
Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/robin-robertson/at-roane-head
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
And up come he to her bed fit,
And a grumlie guest I’m sure was he,
Saying, “Here am I, thy bairnie’s faither
Although I may not comely be.”
—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
Illustration: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird and Wonderful by Richard Pearse Chope (John Lane, 1912)
#Scottish #literature #ballad #folksong #folklore #Orkney #selkie #seals #InternationalSealDay
You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…
—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head” – winner of the Forward prize for best single poem, 2009
Published in The Wrecking Light, Picador 2010
Today, 22 March, is the International Day of the Seal
Listen to Robin Robertson reading the poem here:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2011/dec/20/robin-robertson-at-roane-head-video?index=1
#Scottish #literature #poetry #poem #folklore #Seals #Selkie #InternationalSealDay
Today is the #InternationalSealDay
Let us celebrate!
This #GraySeal enjoying the evening sun is from the Neatherlands!
#VogelFlausch #BirdPhotography #Kegelrobbe #NaturePhotography
If I ever get my teeth replaced due to old age, this is going to be the design. Decided!
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RT @Palaeo_JRule
Spending #InternationalSealDay thinking about the wierd teeth of the crabeater seals! These teeth are used to filter-feed on krill 🦭
https://twitter.com/Palaeo_JRule/status/1638531862422249472
