A pair of Atlantic grey gray seals Halichoerus grypus playing on shingle at the water's edge during the breeding season
A pair of Atlantic grey gray seals Halichoerus grypus playing on shingle at the water's edge during the breeding season Grey seals are gregarious at these haul-outs, sometimes forming large groups of several hundred animals, especially when they are moulting their fur in the spring. They are not, however, very sociable and keep a distance between one another. About two-thirds of greys seals' time is spent at sea where they hunt and feed. In the autumn grey seals congregate at traditional sites on land to breed. The timing of births varies around the coast, beginning in September in West Wales, in October in western Scotland, and as late as November in the Farne Islands. Sand eels and cod are their most important foods, but grey seals are opportunistic feeders
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Location: North Wales UK
Photo credit: © Richard Tadman / Alamy / Afripics
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