7667422 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 15/08/2018 | Hatcher, Julie | | | 12:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14075 | Choppy | 2 | 14104 | Mixed | 14098 | Adult | 14093, 14094 | Bottling/resting in the water, Diving | Female identified as Fiver with a male, interacting nose to nose and calling to each other. Also watching observers on shore. Male seal approached a swimmer entering the sea who got out of the water very quickly.
Male had no distinct markings apart from white scars on nostrils. |
7192124 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 08/07/2018 | Lodge, Pat | | | 16:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14075 | Choppy | 1 | | | 14096 | Pup/juvenile | 14105 | Swimming - travelling | Charmouth west beach. Seal kept popping head out of water about 100 feet from human bathers over a period of 20 mins. It disappeared when scuba divers arrived. We took a photo but I m not able to send it on this form in the format I have. |
7192119 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 08/07/2018 | Lodge, Pat |
| | 16:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14075 | Choppy | 1 | | | 14096 | Pup/juvenile | 14105 | Swimming - travelling | Location 100 feet or so from beach charmouth west beach. The seal kept popping its head out of the water several times to look at human bathers about 100 feet from it over about 20 minutes. It disappeared when two scuba divers entered the water |
7192076 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 08/07/2018 | Lodge, Pat |
| | 16:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14075 | Choppy | 1 | | | 14096 | Pup/juvenile | 14105 | Swimming - travelling | Location 100 feet or so from beach charmouth west beach. The seal kept popping its head out of the water several times to look at human bathers about 100 feet from it over about 20 minutes. It disappeared when two scuba divers entered the water |
6624250 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 10/04/2018 | Garrett, Colin |
| | 16:40 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14071 | Cloudy | 14075 | Choppy | 2 | 14101 | Not recorded | | | 14093 | Bottling/resting in the water | The first Seal was within twenty metres of the shore. Stayed there approximately thirty to forty minutes. Another Seal with different markings was sighted further out and stayed in the same place, resting in the water (sometimes submerging) for the duration of us being there. |
41465141 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 23/04/2025 | Theisen, Lisa | | | 19:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14093 | Bottling/resting in the water | |
41461597 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 09/05/2025 | Hodgson, Sarah |
| | 14:50 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14103 | Female | 14098 | Adult | 14091 | Hauled out - resting on land/out of water | |
41438822 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 08/05/2025 | Hodgson, Sarah |
| | 09:20 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 2 | 14104 | Mixed | 14099 | Mixed group | 14091, 14092, 14093, 14105 | Hauled out - resting on land/out of water, Feeding, Bottling/resting in the water, Swimming - travelling | One seal hauled out; other seal seen feeding on a wrasse |
41435085 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 17/04/2025 | Hodgson, Sarah |
| | 09:45 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14102 | Male | 14096 | Pup/juvenile | 14093, 14094 | Bottling/resting in the water, Diving | |
41433381 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 11/04/2025 | Hodgson, Sarah |
| | 16:35 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14102 | Male | 14098 | Adult | 14093, 14094 | Bottling/resting in the water, Diving | |
41432826 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY67877122 | 06/04/2025 | Hodgson, Sarah |
| | 17:20 | | | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 3 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14093, 14094 | Bottling/resting in the water, Diving | |
41432546 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 20/03/2025 | Hodgson, Sarah |
| | 14:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 3 | 14104 | Mixed | 14098 | Adult | 14093, 14094 | Bottling/resting in the water, Diving | |
41052359 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 19/04/2025 | Bailey, Clare | | | 17:35 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14105 | Swimming - travelling | Dived under the water when it was aware that a paddle board approaching. Did not see after that. |
41014739 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 16/04/2025 | Cradock, Jessica | | | 17:15 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14093 | Bottling/resting in the water | |
40986977 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 12/04/2025 | Mansfield, Steve |
| | 11:30 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 5 | 14103 | Female | 14098 | Adult | 14091 | Hauled out - resting on land/out of water | |
40915874 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SZ04118329 | 10/04/2025 | Dewhurst, Lindsey | | | 15:45 | | | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14095 | Porpoising | Popped up next to my kayak. Looked around dived back into water then popped up near us again. It was still around the same area when we paddled back from our trip. |
40787847 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 08/04/2025 | Mustard, Abi | | | 19:33 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14105 | Swimming - travelling | |
40485718 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SY | 22/03/2025 | Kerr, Lacey | | | 16:57 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | | | | | | | Popped their head above the water, then dove under |
40439120 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Halichoerus grypus | Grey Seal | marine mammal | | SY | 15/03/2025 | Seabrook, John |
| | 17:00 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | 14101 | Not recorded | 14098 | Adult | 14094, 14105 | Diving, Swimming - travelling | Photographed with fish in mouth, from Charmouth promenade, perhaps 200m off the beach, high tide, late afternoon; Dived a number of times. First time we'd seen one there. (Saw a seal in the outer part of the Cobb at Lyme a few years back.) |
40419390 | Dorset Seals Project | Seal records | Phocidae | Uncertain seal species | marine mammal | | SZ | 15/03/2025 | Chick, Malcolm | | | 09:15 | 14088 | Within 100m | 14070 | Sunny | 14074 | Calm | 1 | | | | | 14092, 14094, 14105 | Feeding, Diving, Swimming - travelling | Submerged travelling northwards for approx. 100 metres |