On the up!

Fat and content - a second coat pup (Graeme Duncan)

Mother and pup (David Andrews)

Snow white (David Andrews)

Only three weeks old... (David Andrews)

Home sweet home, from the cottage window (David Andrews)

The dust has settled, the seals have been counted and its all over foe another year. The Farne grey Seals population experienced a good autumn (for numbers born) but I suspect once all the numbers are crunched, we will (as expected) have lost a few - we run at a loss of 50% in normal years. The final island-by-island totals include:

South Wamses 418

Brownsman 358

Staple Island 343

North Wamses 293

Northern Hares 54

Knoxes Reef 12

Big Harcar 11

West Wideopens 6

Longstone 3

Nameless 1

Overall total: 1,499