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dougie12
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One of my regular beaches monday thought Id found a fur coat at first. It was instead a dead baby seal..quite high up the beach and covered in around 1-2 inches of sand..dont think it had been for more than a day or so. I couldnt face tecting any more for the day ...sentimental old me.
Not a big beach,and Ive been there regularly and always seem to come away with at least a fiver,usually in pound coins....they must be being brought in on the tide every other day by looks of it..unless of course someone feels sorry for me and keeps planting them there for me to find :D bit of a puzzle really.....
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Another casualty of great mother nature ......what a shame :(
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I find baby porpoises washed up quite often on my beach,i think some are hit by outboard motors,as there is a lot of boat fishing going on,shame really, apparentley there quite curious mammals.
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Post by hauntedqueen »

That is sad! I'm such an animal lover I even try to dig around the worms I find!

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Post by Westcoastdetector »

The Autumn storms are washing up quite a few poor creatures at the moment . I was over on Allonby beach ( west Cumbria ) on saturday , and there was a little seabird just sitting in the sand , looking very sorry for itself . I couldn't bring myself to put it out of it's misery , but later on when I returned to that area of the beach , it had given up the ghost ; i must admit that i shed a few tears .
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Post by Wansdyke44 »

Goes to show what nice folk we have on hear. ::g

I would have felt sorry for the little furry seal as well.

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Yes we sometimes find some sad sights indeed.

Around 'lambing season' in particular, I've seen a few dead lambs including one with it's head torn off by foxes.

I have foxes live near me in town and I like them, but farmers are apprehensive of them.
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Post by DAVYBFAST »

sad news indeed for the seal

the fiver you keep finding in pound coins :-/ ther is a hole in your finds bag and your picking the same coin up all the time :D
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Warranty void if seal broken....
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you been finding them coins i planted for you to keep you of my gold ring patch ;)
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hauntedqueen wrote:That is sad! I'm such an animal lover I even try to dig around the worms I find!

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being a veggie I always put the worms back down the hole...yup im that sad.. rl; rl;

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Post by stevieB »

Not nice to see but thats nature i suppose. I was on a dig a couple of months ago and a cow gave birth to stillborn twin calves. I kept away, didnt want to see it.
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Post by oldartefact »

As for the poor old seal ... dont be sad... its only mother nature doing her work... for every death there is a life... happy hunting
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