Who's Out In October?

[Anne]

Well we can all swot up can't we    :

[pompeylee]

Just thought the sea lions post would get this kind of replies, our turkish friend we told said the same we never get sea lions here but he said it was a sealion when he saw the video I took, unfortunately the picture I took I didn't capture the head, too big to be a seal & no dorsal fin to be a dolphin, maybe it was Loch Ness???

[Colwyn]

I believe there is only one species of seal in the Mediterranean - the Mediterranean Monk Seal. The males are about the same size as male sea lions but the females are much larger than female sea lions (Seal male = 315kilo, 2.4m/sea lion male = 300kilo,2.4m; seal female 300kilo, 2.4m/sea lion female 100kilo, 1.8m). So it is far more likely to have been seals than sea lions - which live in the Pacific Ocean and parts of the Southern Atlantic. However, there are reckoned to be less than 700 individual seals left in the Med so if they were a Monk seals then a sighting of a couple would be a very rare event.

Well worth contacting a Turkish wildlife organization with your video to see if they verify this exceptional sighting.

[LindseyMitchell]

I've made arrangements to meet a couple of CBFers at Lee's Bar, at lunchtime on Wednesday, September 21st;  if anyone would like to join us, the more the merrier!!!

[pompeylee]

Thanks colwyn that's what I thought after searching sealions in turkey but when I read that there were estimated fewer than 700 I questioned whether this was the case of the 2 swimming just off the shore.

[Colwyn]

Worth following up. But they will be seals not sea lions.

[Highlander]

(imagine having two Highlander faces looking at you!)

Following Colwyn's suggestion I am thinking of having this one made in case I am walking just ahead of CBF members on the prom.