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Sorry this is late, but almost a week ago on the front page of the Herald was a nice photo of a "basking seal" by Tim Krochak of Herald staff. The caption said it was sunning itself on a dock in front of the Dartmouth ferry terminal on Mar. 22. It had a very light grey pelage with scattered small blackish spots. This colour pattern seems to be characteristic of young or subadult harp seals, and the face looks to me like our harbour seal, rather than the more "homely" look of a grey seal. I suspected it was a HARP SEAL, and Ian McLaren confirmed that -- it was probably a yearling, and a harp seal, which turns up along the Atlantic coast with regularity and is often associated with ice (often up on ice floes). The young harp seals and, to a lesser extent, hooded seals too, often wander a long way from the areas where the adults have their pups and are "hunted". Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
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