29674416 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 19/03/2023 | Hine, Kevin | | | 13:30 | 14089 | Within 1km | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | | | 14092, 14094 | Feeding, Diving | |
23380758 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 29/12/2021 | Cook, Steve | | | 11:30 | 14089 | Within 1km | 14071 | Cloudy | 14076 | Rough | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | | | 14092, 14094 | Feeding, Diving | |
18672316 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SZ | 18/01/2021 | Holman, Michelle | | | 12:15 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14071 | Cloudy | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14094 | Feeding, Diving | We watched with binoculars for 15mins it would dive below the surface for 4/5mins before surfacing to breathe again. Saw it approximately 5 times in that period. |
17765641 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phoca vitulina | Common Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 31/08/2020 | Spiller, Brett | | | 19:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14071 | Cloudy | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14096 | Pup/juvenile | 14092, 14094 | Feeding, Diving | |
9808938 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SZ | 12/04/2019 | Ford, Maggie | | | 14:30 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | | | 14092, 14094 | Feeding, Diving | |
29258390 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SZ | 26/01/2023 | Gilbert, Mark | | | 16:30 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093, 14105 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Swimming - travelling | Swam in towards the outfall. Saw fish leaping out of the water. Swam back to original position and repeated two more times. |
17417683 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 15/08/2020 | Hodgson, Sarah |
| | 14:45 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14073 | Mist/fog | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14102 | Male | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093, 14105 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Swimming - travelling | Was seen to eat a ballan wrasse |
38323724 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SZ | 04/09/2024 | Mc Donnell, Kevin | | | 18:10 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093, 14094, 14105 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Diving, Swimming - travelling | Paused to watch me swimming, dived, resurfaced to watch me, came a little close as I backed off and exited the water and then it swam away. |
30262799 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 09/05/2023 | Hatcher, Julie |
| | 10:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14071 | Cloudy | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093, 14094, 14105 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Diving, Swimming - travelling | Mostly bottling but then followed a couple of kayakers to the slipway, keeping slightly to the side and behind. Also seen feeding on a large fish. Disappearing underwater for periods. |
25647044 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 05/06/2022 | Dunn, Maya |
| | 14:45 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14071 | Cloudy | 14074 | Calm | 2 | 14102 | Male | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093, 14094, 14105 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Diving, Swimming - travelling | Could see them eating fish, with head just above the water. Very inquisitive, coming fairly close to the beach to look at people and dogs - stayed around Chapmans Pool for some time, at least half an hour. |
24501899 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 18/03/2022 | Wray, Max |
| | 11:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 2 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14096 | Pup/juvenile | 14092, 14093, 14094 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Diving | Single seal was spotted 50m from us while kayaking. We stopped, so as to avoid disturbing it, but it dived and surfaced next to us, hanging around the boats for a couple of minutes. Continued to dive and swim within 50m of us for 5 minutes while we slowly paddled onwards. A 2nd seal was seen appearing on the surface of the water too at times. |
20221160 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 14/04/2021 | Hodgson, Sarah |
| | 12:10 | 14089 | Within 1km | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 3 | 14102 | Male | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093, 14094 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Diving | |
20086005 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SZ12589082 | 07/03/2021 | Henegan, Paul | | | 17:00 | | | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093, 14094 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Diving | |
40987513 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SZ | 14/04/2025 | Wright, Alex |
| | 19:50 | 14089 | Within 1km | 14071 | Cloudy | 14075 | Choppy | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water | |
37715090 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 06/08/2024 | Walker, Matt |
| | 13:55 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water | It was moving up and down the beach regularly diving for a few minutes at a time.
It would often bob around more then likely keeping an eye on us. |
32604822 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 22/08/2023 | White, Trevor | | | 14:50 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water | |
17846335 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 14/09/2020 | Copland, Alison |
| | 10:40 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water | |
11699160 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phoca vitulina | Common Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 01/09/2019 | Symes, Josh | | | 10:00 | 14089 | Within 1km | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092, 14093 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water | |
8022866 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 30/09/2018 | Christopher, Andrew |
| | 11:30 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14071 | Cloudy | 14075 | Choppy | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | | | 14092, 14093 | Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water | |
40987198 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SZ | 14/04/2025 | Stevens, Nicola |
| | 14:20 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14071 | Cloudy | 14075 | Choppy | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14092 | Feeding | |