\n The Marine and Wildlife Rescue charity sent a team of volunteers to assess the situation on its first call out of the new year.\n<\/p>\n
\n The animal rescue charity had been responding to calls about “many seals” following the recent high tides.\n<\/p>\n
\n Its first call out for 2026 was to help a curious seal in Gorleston.\n<\/p>\n
\n The seal pup after being spotted in Gorleston, Norfolk. Image: Marine and Wildlife Rescue Facebook (Image: Marine and Wildlife Rescue)\n<\/p>\n
\n They said that the first call for assistance in 2026 was received at 8am on New Year’s Day.\n<\/p>\n
\n They said: “The pup appeared in the car park on Riverside Road in Gorleston and was trying to get beneath one of the parked cars.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Despite a thorough search by our team, it could not be found, although we were certain that it may have shuffled into an adjacent garden.”\n<\/p>\n
\n On January 2 (last Friday), the team was called out once more.\n<\/p>\n
\n It said: “This afternoon we were alerted that it had been found in a front garden of a house by a postman delivering to an address close to the car park the pup had originally been seen in.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We went to retrieve the pup and have now transferred it to the team at East Winch Wildlife Centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n The seal pup after being rescued in Gorleston, Norfolk. Image: Marine and Wildlife Rescue Facebook (Image: Marine and Wildlife Rescue)\n<\/p>\n
\n “Although fairly bright and alert, there was not a chance the pup could be returned to a local beach; the pup was significantly underweight for its age as it had started to moult the whitecoat.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Very grateful to the team at East Winch for taking the pup today.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Reports had been issued to the service amid continuing calls for many seals “since the combination of recent high tides and births of seal pups continues to reach its peak.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A post on the Marine and Wildlife Rescue Facebook page said: “We continue to receive calls for many seals since the combination of recent high tides and births of seal pups continues to reach its peak.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marine and Wildlife Rescue charity sent a team of volunteers to assess the situation on its first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-354573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}