Autumn gatherings

[kas]

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.





Whilst others just chill out on the beach.

[kas]

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.

[Mystical Potato Head]

Great shots Kas,good detail and youv captured the character of those seals really well.

[cazmanian_minx]

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]

Was watching the male seals a few days ago,great shot kas.

[dragonfly]

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]

Very good.

[Liz]

Wow what great photos Kas!

Ta for sharing.

[dragonfly]

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]

Yes, what great action shot - well done

[kara]

Fantastic photos Kas,

[kas]

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]

Seabird found his first white coat grey seal pups today.

As did I!







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]

What great photos of these beautiful creatures Cazmanian_minx !

Many thanks for sharing them with us.

[kas]

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.

[Liz]

More great photos Kas.

Love the white 'sheep'!lol

[cazmanian_minx]

Out again this morning - nicer weather and as a result the seals were mostly up and fishing by the time I got there!





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...