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October 2007 
01/10/07
1 common seal pup observed by Elaine Roft and (BM) - free swimming
at "JPF". Bright, active and alert
also
Medic Linda Robertson (SWT) today confirmed to Elaine that our swans
"J" & "B" and their 8 cygnets that mysteriously disappeared from
Montrose "Curlie" have been traced. All are safe and well and in
their new environment. (Location withheld). It would appear that they
had been uplifted & relocated without permission / consent. Thanks
to Linda for the update on this good news
and
Seals at a location within Fraserburgh area
I was on my piece of land today with Gizmo, (dog) looking at the
phenomenal amount of seaweed - approx 15' wide and from 2' deep with
drifts of 6'.
I suddenly noticed approx 6-7 seals on the beach when there was a
high tide, so I decided not to disturb them - definitely a 1st for
me. I can't get close enough to photograph them unfortunately.
Kevin Wales and, lastly, a
story from the Evening Star......
Click here- Evening Star - Seal pup's beach visit
05/10/07 Approx 6 BN Dolphins at Montrose Bay. Feeding,
jumping, breaching. No confirmed directional heading. Sightings
reported by "BM-DS" at 17.00 - 18.00hrs.
06/10/07
2 seals at "JPF", free swimming.
Thanks to MT & BT for reporting the sightings.
07/10/08 6-7 seals at "JPF" at 12.00hrs +1 free swimming.
08.10.07 6-7 seals at "JPF" at 15.00hrs +2 free swimming at SJWW.
Thanks to the member of the public for phoning in with the last two
sightings.
19/10/07 Hope your on the mend soon Rebecca.
Thinking of you. Best wishes from the team.
Stills from the Isle of May, Scottish Seabird Sanctuary webcam taken
some days previously. Hopefully they'll stay there!!!
20/10/07
Thanks to our "supporter" Kevin Wales for his latest sightings - 14
seals hauled out on the rocks at a location within Fraserburgh.
21/10/07 3 common seals released from Deep
Sea World last Saturday 13th Oct
Last remaining 3 common seals are to be released this Saturday
A delightful story in a local paper concerning a common seal bearing
a yellow tag with its ID Number (withheld for now as is location)
Intrigued I called deep sea world at Queensferry who informed me
that they released a Grey seal bearing that tag number and colour
(named Whistler). The seal was brought to them in Nov 2006.
The photo is 100 percent a common seal.
Apart from deep sea world and Middlebank is there any other local
places tagging seals that are likely to have the same tagging
number? and colours.
If not, then records are obviously misleading if greys and commons
are being mixed up on release.
It was a grey seal named "Whistler" uplifted from St Monans in Fife
by SSPCA New Years Eve 2005. It was transferred from Middlebank
April 2006 to go to deep sea world. Deep Sea World released it Nov
2006. It was sighted on Sept 30th 2007 and featured in local paper
the week after.
The paper had digitally enhanced the photo (adding the seal in
afterwards) adding a common instead of a grey....tut tut!
Many thanks to Alexis for provision of the information.
On another note...
Uplifted grey seal pup from Lewis Oct 11th 2007. The pup has been
named "Lewis" and weighed in at 13.5kg. It is doing well in rehab at
SSPCA Middlebank, Inverkeithing.
23/10/07 Medics Paul Horne, Sue Horne and Intermediate Helper Ryan
Horne reported the following sighting this morning - a large grey
seal and a youngster at "N.C.S"
26/10/07
From the SWT......... "Over the months I have refrained
from posting about the under mentioned as requested by those
monitoring the situation, however, it is now public knowledge and on
numerous websites, therefore feel that I can go ahead and post as we
have had sightings coming in from various locals although, I will
refrain from mentioning the areas out of respect for those concerned
about its future wellbeing."
"September 2007
Saw the arrival of a young white-tailed eagle at Montrose Basin.
Identification through Its ‘N’ wing tag apparently identifies it as
one of the 15 birds released in Fife earlier this year, which was
the beginning of a re-introduction of these huge birds to the east
coast of Scotland. I received a call from "GN" on Tuesday saying it
was still in the area (location withheld) and was informed by a
local that he too had seen it, in flight looking for prey at the
same location as "GN"."
Attached picture shows a white tailed eagle for illustration
purposes (NOTE: ITS NOT THE EAGLE IN QUESTION)
27/10/07
1 Adult grey seal and pup at JPF. Thanks to the member of the public
for phoning the sighting into us.
29/10/07
1 seal at JPF at 12.00hrs. Thanks to BM for calling the sighting in.
30/10/07
7 seals at JPF at 11.30hrs. Thanks to BM for calling the sightings
in. 3 Bottlenose Dolphins at Montrose Bay, jumping, feeding,
breaching before heading North at 14.00hrs.
31/10/07
7 seals at JPF (a.m.)1 Adult seal at JPF (pm)
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