Seals

[tyneandrew]

I'm sure someone will know better but i have heard stories of seals many many miles up rivers, particularly on 'big' rivers where access is easier for them.

I just can't picture a seal going over the sill at Wylam and then swimming up the fast water to hagg bank...

[say]

Estuary 20 miles long - wow

I've seen seals in the spring up as far as Maryculter on the River Dee, just a few miles below Park.

On the River Don, they have been spotted as far up as Parkhill which is a fair bit up from the tidal limits.

Just goes to show how desperate they can get...!!!

[scottyjock]

My local small spate river has had seals about 4/5 miles above the tide
but very rarely.
Fairly common to have them in the first mile above the tide!!!

[wilbert]

A few years back on the Ribble a seal decided that it was going to live in pool about 5 miles above the tide for the whole winter and it would have done too if a very loud bang hadn't "scared it off", it was not seen again. Sill not as big a problem as the cormorants.

[imb]

we've got dolphins up here who put the seals to shame!

[macd]

biz said:

we've got dolphins up here who put the seals to shame!

you seeing dolphins ian

Seals run up the river ness and swim the length of the loch and can be seen basking at the mouth of the oich at fort augustus some 36 miles+ from the sea.

[imb]

aye ross,was trying for one on a colliedog!reckon it would be some battle with a bottlenose!

[kercock]

I have seen them on Kercock several times over the years but there certainly was one a few years ago on the Murthly No 2 beat late in January,which as far as I know is as far up the Tay as one has ever been seen. As the river flows I would hazard a guess at 20mls above the tide and a further25 from the sea proper.

[kelliefly]

hi kercock, reports of a seal up the river isla a year or two ago,
I think a loud bang frightened it away too.
a bird scarer mabey.

[rennie]

Know for a fact one got as far up the Tay as Dunkeld,I spoke to the chap who showed it the way home,splendid bloke he helps out lots of the wayward little darlings when they have lost their way. Pedro.

[flybox]

I have seen a seal on the River Great Ouse near Huntingdon. That's a good 40+ miles from the sea.