{"id":7692,"date":"2010-10-27T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2010-11-14T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T18:31:48","slug":"juvenile-harbor-seal-basks-off-wellfleet-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7692","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Harbor Seal Basks Off Wellfleet Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-003-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7698\" title=\"harbor seal 25 Oct 2010 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"harbor seal 25 Oct 2010 003 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-003-480-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Harbor seals are frequent fall visitors to Wellfleet Harbor, where adults can often be observed chasing schools of menhaden\u00c2\u00a0and hauling out on the floating docks of the Inner Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3437\" target=\"_blank\">Ode to a Lazy Seal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3390\" target=\"_blank\">Wellfleet Harbor Seals Return for Halloween<\/a>.)\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, this small lethargic juvenile seal seemed out of sorts and out of place when Turtle Journal encountered it on Tuesday afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   google_ad_client = 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480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harbor Seal Hauls Out at Wellfleet Pier<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The seal had taken refuge on the sandy beach just off the working fishermen&#8217;s section of the Wellfleet Pier.\u00c2\u00a0 When Sue Wieber Nourse spotted the juvenile, it lay quite motionless on the warm sands heated by 60 degree late October sunshine.\u00c2\u00a0 Since marine mammals are federally protected, Sue ensured she did not disturb the animal by staying a significant distance from the critter and photographing the event with\u00c2\u00a0telephoto magnification.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1nY-TOXzjsY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1nY-TOXzjsY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harbor Seal Savors Sunny Autumn Day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">As Sue filmed a short clip of the basking juvenile, some tourists approached within 50 feet of the animal and it began to respond to their presence.\u00c2\u00a0 After they were waved off, the harbor seal resumed its patient wait for the tide to envelop the warm sands on which it had hauled out.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle Journal alerted the marine mammal stranding network that\u00c2\u00a0said they had kept this seal under observation at this spot for the last 24 hours.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-005-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7694\" title=\"harbor seal 25 Oct 2010 005 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-005-480.jpg\" alt=\"harbor seal 25 Oct 2010 005 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-005-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-005-480-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harbor Seal Snoozes as Tide Rises<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">As Turtle Journal left Wellfleet Pier, the juvenile harbor seal seemed to be snoozing as the tide continued to rise.\u00c2\u00a0 When Sue returned to the pier later in the day, the young seal had disappeared with the now receding tide.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juvenile Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) Harbor seals are frequent fall visitors to Wellfleet Harbor, where adults can often be observed chasing schools of menhaden\u00c2\u00a0and hauling out on the floating docks of the Inner Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 (See Ode to a Lazy Seal and Wellfleet Harbor Seals Return for Halloween.)\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, this small lethargic juvenile seal seemed out 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