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#Seals

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Michael Kohlman

Seallapalooza!

Another image taken with my new Sony 400-800mm G Lens. This being what appeared to be a pretty fun Seal Party going on on Bird Island off of 17th Mile Drive, CA.

Admittedly I was a bit nervous when I pre-ordered this monster as it is the largest lens investment I have personally ever made. But even with the rather brief local wildlife shoot today, and with most settings on auto, I am delighted to have this in my kit now.

Seallapalooza! A gathering of Sea Lions on Bird Island off of 17th Mile Drive - Pebble Beach CA. April 5th, 2025
#Photography#NaturePhotography#Seals
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Michael Kohlman

First day out with my new Sony 400-800mm G Lens. It did not disappoint. One of the many impressive shots today was this Harbor Gal with a newborn Pup (8am PDT this morning according to the guide at the Hopkins Beach Rookery in Pacific Grove). If you look real close, you can still see the umbilical on the Pup.

Taken at the full 800mm. This is simply a shot I could not have been able to get before.

California Harbor Seal Mother with Pup. Pup was born April 5th 2025, at approximately 8am Pacific Time near the Hopkins Beach Rookery in Pacific Grove, California.
#Photography#NaturePhotography#Seals
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Obsidian Urbex Photography

Spread the seal-y joy! Today join me in seal-ebrating International Day Of The Seal 🦭

Here's one of my favourite #seal photos, taken a few years ago on the East Yorkshire Coast. Pulling a very silly pose!

Want more silly seals to brighten your day? I have a bunch of cute and funny seal photos in my appropriately named "I 💙 Seals" portfolio -
obsidianurbexphotography.com/p

photo of seal for international Seal day
#Seals#Photography#Nature
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

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:

theguardian.com/books/video/20

At Roane Head Robin Robertson for John Burnside 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. You’d tell it by the quicken and the pine that hid it from the sea and from the brief light of the sun, and by Aonghas the collie, lying at the door where he died: a rack of bones like a sprung trap. A fork of barnacle geese came over, with that slow squeak of rusty saws. The bitter sea’s complaining pull and roll; a whicker of pigeons, lifting in the wood. She’d had four sons, I knew that well enough, and each one wrong. All born blind, they say, slack-jawed and simple, web-footed, rickety as sticks. Beautiful faces, I’m told, though blank as air. Someone saw them once, outside, hirpling down to the shore, chittering like rats, and said they were fine swimmers, but I would have guessed at that. Her husband left her: said they couldn’t be his, they were more fish than human; he said they were beglamoured, and searched their skin for the showing marks. For years she tended each difficult flame: their tight, flickering bodies.
Each night she closed the scales of their eyes to smoor the fire. Until he came again, that last time, thick with drink, saying he’d had enough of this, all this witchery, and made them stand in a row by their beds, twitching. Their hands flapped; herring-eyes rolled in their heads. He went along the line relaxing them one after another with a small knife. They say she goes out every night to lay blankets on the graves to keep them warm. It would put the heart across you, all that grief. There was an otter worrying in the leaves, a heron loping slow over the water when I came at scraich of day, back to her door. She’d hung four stones in a necklace, wore four rings on the hand that led me past the room with four small candles burning which she called ‘the room of rain’. Milky smoke poured up from the grate like a waterfall in reverse and she said my name, and it was the only thing and the last thing that she said. She gave me a skylark’s egg in a bed of frost; gave me twists of my four sons’ hair; gave me her husband’s head in a wooden box. Then she gave me the sealskin, and I put it on.
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Adrian

There's a #house for sale in the old fishing village of Whinnyfold on the #Aberdeenshire #coast. The location, views & walks are stunning, with abundant local #wildlife including #seals and nesting #seabirds including guillemots, razorbills & kittiwakes. The #property includes a bothy with power & central heating which would make an excellent #workshop or #artist #studio.

The current owners wish to sell to full-time residents, not for it to become a holiday home.

aspc.co.uk/search/property/430

Aberdeen Solicitors' Property Centre11 Whinnyfold, Cruden Bay, Peterhead11 Whinnyfold, Cruden Bay, Peterhead. 2 Bedroom Property For Sale In Peterhead With ASPC
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