Follow up to previous video of Grey seal pup being born. Here is the mother meeting her pup for the first time
We love Grey seals and this is the time of the year (between now and Xmas) that you can see them with their newborn pups on the beaches in big numbers. The best places are on the east coast. Horsey Gap neat Gt Yarmouth, and Blakeney point (walk from Cley beach) both in Norfolk are great. Or Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast. Last November at Donna Nook the pregnant female in front of us suddenly got very restless, so we watched closely and I managed to film this pup being born.
Fb will only allow me one video per post to I’ll add the follow up one of the mum and pup meeting each other for the first time separately.
I love these Masked crabs. I’d never seen them
before this year, but have now seen four 😁 I watched this one bury itself yesterday evening and leave its little antenna poking out of the sand. I wonder what they use them for ?
This is an unusual ‘Masked crab’ ( gets its name from faint markings on its shell that look like a human face) which one of our recent explorers spotted sitting on the sand. I’ve only seen a couple of these (both this year) in all my years of walking the estuary, so thought you might like to see him.
I’ve just put up another couple of Broomway walks. So there are now a selection of dates bookable on the www.thamesturyman.co.uk website for all the waks we offer. Broomway long and short, Seal watching, Mulberry harbour, Defence boom, and Southend Pierhead. We look forward to seeing some of you again soon 😁
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Here is a short video I took under Southend pier on the last ‘super tide’. I’d never seen the tide go this low before in the daylight. It was a bit eerie under there thinking that very few people have ever seen all the junk lying on the seabed.
We run occasasional walks to the Pierhead, the Mulberry harbour, the estuary defence boom as well as Seal watching walks, and walks across the ancient Broomway to Foulness Island. Please follow us on Facebook and check out our website for descriptions / availability and prices.
www.thamesestuaryman.co.uk
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