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kas
20-Oct-09, 23:09
Grey seal gatherings

The Stags are not the only ones competing for the ladies at this time of year. The grey seals also have fights to see whos the bigger man.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/C1.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/C2.jpg

Whilst others just chill out on the beach.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/C3.jpg
kas
20-Oct-09, 23:12
The Harbour porpoise also gathers in numbers of 20-50+ in Gills bay at this time of year and are just awesome to be in amongst.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/HArbourporpoise2.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/HP1.jpg
Mystical Potato Head
21-Oct-09, 13:24
Great shots Kas,good detail and youv captured the character of those seals really well.
cazmanian_minx
21-Oct-09, 16:33
Fab shots. Every year I tell myself I'm going to take time to go and look for a grey seal beach and every year I miss it!
Kenn
21-Oct-09, 20:49
Was watching the male seals a few days ago,great shot kas.
dragonfly
21-Oct-09, 22:06
Fantastic photos Kas, you must be so delighted not only to take them but to see them all so close up too!!

love all of them but especially #3
shazzap
21-Oct-09, 23:10
Very good.
Liz
23-Oct-09, 12:46
Wow what great photos Kas!

Ta for sharing.:D
dragonfly
24-Oct-09, 12:08
well done Kas on getting your photo of the seals fighting on the BBC Scotland website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/default.stm
Deemac
24-Oct-09, 13:17
Yes, what great action shot - well done
kara
24-Oct-09, 20:25
Fantastic photos Kas,:Razz
kas
24-Oct-09, 21:06
I had hoped to get out to both the porpoise and the seals this week but the weather was not on my side. Thanks for the comments and Seabird found his first white coat grey seal pups today. Photo and info @ http://www.caithness-sea-watching.co.uk/index.html
cazmanian_minx
25-Oct-09, 13:46
Seabird found his first white coat grey seal pups today.

As did I!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3516/4042587312_fb277807b7.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/4042587312/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/4041844307_6d8dc29936.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/4041844307/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2518/4042577206_371eb9b3d5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/4042577206/in/photostream/)

I had a wonderful 2 hours watching them and would have stayed there all morning, but they saw someone coming and the beach emptied in about 2 minutes flat. More seals from this morning on my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/
Liz
25-Oct-09, 13:53
What great photos of these beautiful creatures Cazmanian_minx !

Many thanks for sharing them with us.:D
kas
25-Oct-09, 15:02
Those pups will be about 10-14 days old as they are moulting already. Great photos.
Nice Work. Shame the light has been so poor this week. Here is another 2 scrapping I found and thw hite sheep of the family.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/20091020304.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/S1.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/20091020407.jpg
Liz
25-Oct-09, 15:19
More great photos Kas.:D

Love the white 'sheep'!lol
cazmanian_minx
31-Oct-09, 18:32
Out again this morning - nicer weather and as a result the seals were mostly up and fishing by the time I got there!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4061142406_dc32869c5a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/4061142406/)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3519/4061141204_68ba67bd8a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/4061141204/)

First attempt at using my 1.4x converter - I lose the autofocus with it on this lens, this was the only shot I managed to get in focus out of about 40 efforts! Bobbing seals are not the easiest thing to focus on manually...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2764/4060396017_87dd1bd1d1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/4060396017/)