Grey Seal Cow Portrait
Grey Seal Cow Portrait. Portrait of a female grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) at the salt marshes near Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast. Females grey seals are usually silver grey to brown in colour and are generally much lighter than the males.
Grey Seal Cow Portrait – About Grey Seals
For much of the year grey seals are out at sea or hauled out on far away sandbanks, but from October to December the seals come ashore to give birth to their pups on the sand dunes of Donna Nook. Donna Nook is home to one the largest and most accessible grey seal colonies in the UK. There are about 3,000 Grey Seals along the coastline, and 900+ pups are born each year. The area is actually owned by the MOD (Ministry of Defence) as a bombing range, but surprisingly the seals seem relatively undisturbed by the military activity and return here year after year.