Orford Ness seal colony welcomes 300 pups, with more expected

More than 300 seal pups have been born at a colony just a month into the breeding season, the National Trust has said.

Last year, 228 pups were born at Orford Ness in Suffolk, which is home to the county’s first breeding colony of grey seals.

The breeding season began in November and already hundreds have been born with still about a month to go.

Matt Wilson, the trust’s countryside manager, said the team believed the entire colony now consisted of more than 1,000 seals.