Grey Seal Webcam on Vilsandi, Estonia 2015

[Fleur]

January 28
good morning

8:55

[Fleur]

9:15

[Liz01]

[alice44]

Some sunshine

[ame]

a crow was landing on the shore but wind tried to blow it away.


maybe the same crow or maybe not found something interesting and brought it to a rock to examine it more closely... but it wasn't anything edible after all.


big fat mamas are lying on the shore... and the one spotty small one.

[asteria]

White seal with grey head is in the right part of screen.

[ame]

13:31 a young eagle landed on the far right end of the shore and startled the seals and made them rush towards water. i think the eagle found something on the shore and flew away with it. i did't get a good video but some pictures. i made a gif of them.

[ame]

14:10 for a while the waves were so high that they washed the rim of rock shelf where the seals are lying.


then some square waves, too.

[ame]

i have been waiting to see the big dark seal in the middle to roll down to the sea, but it keeps lying on the edge of the rock shelf. one small seal took advantage of the high waves and plunged into the water when a high wave washed the edge.


ladies beware! you are going to get wet!

[ame]

two seals have been playing in the water near the waterline and in the shallow on the far right. i can't be sure (of course!) whether they are the same two as the first pair which i noticed at 15:42. they rode on the waves from the left to the shallow water...


... then they wrestled there in the waves for a while...


... and then they swam back to the left against the waves.

[ame]

16:19 the camera stopped. i suppose it went to sleep though it is a bit early.
no! it came back!

16:04 one very high wave flushed the ladies on the left. "tails up girls!"


then one seal tried to get up to the shore on the left behind these ladies but i gave up and swam to the left.

[Cax]

Mm.. I think most of those aren't ladies, but gents, lol. Big massive heads like cold blood horses, thick necks and burly bottoms, nasty temper too - bulls!

Sexual dimorphism - female on the left and male on the right.

See the much smaller female and her streamlining narrow head, so different from males, who's head are beefy and fleshy - compare with those two guys front of the middle.

Two bulls's confrontation

[asteria]

The white seal is at the same place.

[ame]

the camera went to sleep at 17:08.
i think that the waves calmed down a little as night was coming. not much though.




Cax
those were my thoughts, too: the dark big ones in the middle were bulls (males). besides being much bigger than females they males have dark fur with no spots. ladies have spotty frocks which are often rather dark when wet. the bull in your picture was on the shore for a long time so it is genuinely dark. the lady on his left side had just climbed up from the sea and she already is spotty.

[Liz01]

it's nice after a day of work here can see so many beautiful pictures and movies.
Thanks Ame, Fleur and Cax

[ame]

January 29th

it was so busy yesterday that the camera has slept today.

[Hellem]

What brings WTE-s circling over the seal islet?
http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/22303

[ame]

January 30th

another day of hibernation...

[Liz01]

January 31

still in hibernation...

[airras]

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1
good morning everyone.
8;18