April 28, 2015 — One of the last seals of the season was spotted waving goodbye on the beach in Rockaway Park on Monday morning.
Springtime marks a changing of the guard in marine wildlife, as many seals move north out of our inlets and bays and Humpback Whales arrive from more southern waters.
Over the weekend, a seal, this one entangled in some kind of netting, was spotted in Brooklyn near Kingsborough Community College, according to the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, an organization that aids injured marine animals.
The Brooklyn seal darted back into the water before Riverhead workers could get to it.
The foundation encourages anyone who spots the injured seal or any other whale, seal or turtle to report it to its 24 hour hotline and help determine whether or not the animal is injured.