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Grey seal on the beach in Norfolk, England
A stout seal
From the Wash in the west to the Winterton Dunes out east, the Norfolk Coast stretches about 145 kilometres along the top of East Anglia. The gently curving coast plays host to beachgoers from all over Britain and beyond each summer, but here we see a more permanent resident. Less common but larger than their harbour seal cousins, grey seals like this well-fed juvenile are a frequent sight upon the cold seas of Northern Europe. A grey seal colony on Blakeney Point, a shingle spit right here in Norfolk where over 3,000 pups are born per year, is the biggest single-site pinniped population in England.
A stout seal
From the Wash in the west to the Winterton Dunes out east, the Norfolk Coast stretches about 145 kilometres along the top of East Anglia. The gently curving coast plays host to beachgoers from all over Britain and beyond each summer, but here we see a more permanent resident. Less common but larger than their harbour seal cousins, grey seals like this well-fed juvenile are a frequent sight upon the cold seas of Northern Europe. A grey seal colony on Blakeney Point, a shingle spit right here in Norfolk where over 3,000 pups are born per year, is the biggest single-site pinniped population in England.
We're close to England's biggest seal colony, where over 3,000 of these furballs are reared each year.
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