{"id":803711,"date":"2026-10-15T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803711\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:48:10","slug":"seal-spotted-feeding-at-weymouth-marina-in-morning-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803711\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal spotted feeding at Weymouth Marina in morning visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>\n  The footage, posted by Premier Weymouth Marina, shows the marine mammal feeding in the water as it paid a morning visit to the harbour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Paul Swain, marina manager at Premier Weymouth Marina, said sightings of seals are not uncommon, although they remain a welcome sight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We do get a variety of wildlife, a seal will occasionally pop its head in,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It could have been that this one was visiting due to an increase in bass.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It&#8217;s always nice to see.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk\/what-we-do\/conservation-at-sea\/dorset-seals?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dorset Wildlife Trust<\/a>, two species of seal are native to UK waters: the grey seal and the common, or harbour, seal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Both can be encountered along the Dorset coast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charity says seals are highly mobile marine mammals, capable of travelling hundreds of kilometres and spending days at sea before returning to shore to rest, digest food, breed or moult.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While seals have no natural predators in Dorset, they face threats including climate change, changes to prey availability, disturbance from people getting too close, and the dangers posed by marine litter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Through its Dorset Seal Project, Dorset Wildlife Trust is working to learn more about local seal populations and promote responsible behaviour around the animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The footage, posted by Premier Weymouth Marina, shows the marine mammal feeding in the water as it paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-803711","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\/803711","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=803711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}