Donna Nook - 1st December 2024

 It's been five years, since Jayne and I were last at the Atlantic Grey Seal breeding reserve at Donna Nook, in Lincolnshire (see post here). Today, we drove across, and had amazing views of bulls, cows and pups (1,400 at the moment!).

Pups

Cow and Pup feeding

Bull

Seal's flipper

There were a few birds flying about, the most numerous being Great Black-backed Gull, with several adults and juveniles feeding around the colony. Other birds seen were: Shelduck, Herring and Black-headed Gulls, Skylark (over) and Curlew.

Great Black-backed Gull (and cow seal)

Pomarine Skua!!

We had a trip over to the Grey Seal colony at Donna Nook in Lincolnshire today. We had super views of the seals, including males, females and pups.

Whilst looking at the seals, however, we were amazed to see an adult Pomarine Skua flying over our heads! It landed amongst the seals, about 20m away, and began to eat the afterbirths from the 800+ pups.

Pomarine Skua

Year List update:
194 - Pomarine Skua