A pencil sketch of a Saimaa ringed seal, which has a distinctive ring pattern on its fur. The seal is lounging happily; its short fur is wet and tousled.
I’m a day late to #InternationalSealDay but I had to draw a Saimaa ringed seal! These enchanting creatures are endemic to Lake Saimaa in Finland and currently endangered.
Thank you so much to @katheastman.bsky.social for reviewing Where the Seals Sing to coincide with #InternationalSealDay.
Seal of approval card with jolly grey seal, happy crab and SHELL YEAH placard
It’s #internationalsealday lads
Congrats/bday Card available here fo people you think are Seally great… #soz
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#bsnm #seals #mhhsbd
Happy #InternationalSealDay 🦭🦭🦭🦭 (March 22)
Here's some arts of my little Monk Seal Girl, Luanna!
Arts: @rileykit.bsky.social @osito.bsky.social @pinkitsuu.bsky.social & @nazznanuke.bsky.social
Sign says seal bay nature park
I think i saw a seal snoot off in the distance but otherwise it seems like they all had the day off!
#internationalsealday
International Seal Day appreciation post, with seals and Annora the selkie
Happy International Seal Day!
This day is meant to raise awareness about the ecological importance, conservation needs, and fascinating lives of seals 🦭
Annora, the selkie, is here to join the celebrations🎉
I can't wait for you to meet her in OF STEEL AND SEALSKIN!
#internationalsealday #writersky
A greyscale drawing of a monk seal swimming down. Text at the top reads "81. Mediterranean Monk Seal. Monachus monachus" and the date at the bottom is 22/03/2026 - International Seal Day!
Endless Ocean introduced me to this monk seal, and I fell in love. All seals are adorable, but something about this one just really clicked with me, and they're even cuter in real life! Also, like... endangered. Which is very sad. But still cute!
#365days #art #seal #internationalsealday #animal
It's #InternationalSealDay, so there is only one book I can review today, the mesmerising Where the Seals Sing by @susanrichardson.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social #ReadingWales26
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SEAL DAY! massposting my seal art for international seal day
#internationaldayoftheseal #internationalsealday
"And as they're getting closer, she starts hearing the sounds of 60,000 seals." - RACHAEL CUSICK, Mystery Bay, Radiolab #Radiolab #InternationalSealDay #RachaelCusick
An illustration of a black and white ribbon seal resting on sea ice and watching the polar lights in the sky.
Happy #InternationalSealDay everyone! 🦭
Here is my illustration of a ribbon seal 💙
#art 🎨
a digital painting of two anthropomorphic elephant seal twins in swimwear, on a cloudy day at the beach. Myfanwy (on the left) is wearing a purple-sleeved wetsuit and Morgan (on the right) is wearing a pink sleeved rash shirt and a pair of pink swim shorts. Myfanwy is giving a peace sign, and Morgan is pulling a silly gape-mouthed face. the sea can be seen behind them.
it's International Seal Day! celebrate by hitting the beach, whatever the weather
#art #ocsky #oc #internationalsealday #seal
“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)
#folksong #folklore #InternationalSealDay 🦭
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)
#folksong #folklore #InternationalSealDay 🦭
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The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry Traditional An earthly nourris sits and sings And aye she sings, “Ba lilly wean, Little ken I my bairnie’s faither Far less the land that he bides in.” And up come he to her bed fit, And a grumlie guest I’m sure was he, Saying, “Here am I, thy bairnie’s faither Although I may not comely be. “I am a man upon the land, I am a selkie in the sea, And when I’m far and far frae land My hame is in the Sule Skerry.” Then he has taen a purse of gold And he has set it on her knee, Saying, “Gie to me, my ain wee son, And you accept your nourris fee. “It shall come to pass on a summer’s day When the sun shines bricht on every stane That I will tak my ain wee son And learn him how to swim the faem. “And you will marry a proud gunner, And a richt good gunner I’m sure he’ll be, And wi the first shot that e’er he fires He’ll kill baith my bonnie son and me.”
A monochrome illustration, full of soft, subtle shading. A young woman cradles a baby at her breast. She looks over her shoulder towards a strange, splay-legged figure, bearded, with a drooping moustache and small, staring, inhuman eyes. He reaches out his right hand, offering the woman a small sack of coins. A small crucifix hangs on a post behind the two figures.
“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”
—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#poem #poetry #InternationalSealDay 🦭
seal and international day of the seal
Happy #InternationalSealDay everyone!
🦭🦭🦭
#Seal #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography #Furbaby #Cute #Animals
“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”
—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”
#poem #poetry #folklore #InternationalSealDay 🦭
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At Roane Head Robin Robertson for John Burnside You’d know her house by the drawn blinds – by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall, the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry. You’d tell it by the quicken and the pine that hid it from the sea and from the brief light of the sun, and by Aonghas the collie, lying at the door where he died: a rack of bones like a sprung trap. A fork of barnacle geese came over, with that slow squeak of rusty saws. The bitter sea’s complaining pull and roll; a whicker of pigeons, lifting in the wood. She’d had four sons, I knew that well enough, and each one wrong. All born blind, they say, slack-jawed and simple, web-footed, rickety as sticks. Beautiful faces, I’m told, though blank as air. Someone saw them once, outside, hirpling down to the shore, chittering like rats, and said they were fine swimmers, but I would have guessed at that. Her husband left her: said they couldn’t be his, they were more fish than human; he said they were beglamoured, and searched their skin for the showing marks.
For years she tended each difficult flame: their tight, flickering bodies. Each night she closed the scales of their eyes to smoor the fire. Until he came again, that last time, thick with drink, saying he’d had enough of this, all this witchery, and made them stand in a row by their beds, twitching. Their hands flapped; herring-eyes rolled in their heads. He went along the line relaxing them one after another with a small knife. They say she goes out every night to lay blankets on the graves to keep them warm. It would put the heart across you, all that grief. There was an otter worrying in the leaves, a heron loping slow over the water when I came at scraich of day, back to her door. She’d hung four stones in a necklace, wore four rings on the hand that led me past the room with four small candles burning which she called ‘the room of rain’. Milky smoke poured up from the grate like a waterfall in reverse and she said my name, and it was the only thing and the last thing that she said. She gave me a skylark’s egg in a bed of frost; gave me twists of my four sons’ hair; gave me her husband’s head in a wooden box. Then she gave me the sealskin, and I put it on.
You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…
—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the @lrb.co.uk, 14 August 2008
Today, 22 March, is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
#poem #poetry
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"This is where the seals hang out." - KRISTEN BECKER, Your Happy Place, Welcome to Provincetown #WelcometoProvincetown #InternationalSealDay #KristenBecker
Today is Mar 22:
#InternationalSealDay
#HealthCareRightsDay
#GoofOffDay
#GryffindorPrideDay
#WorldComaDay
#CloudSecurityDay
#OrganoidResearchDay
#TuskegeeAirmenDay
#WorldDoulaDay
#WestVirginiaDay
#BlackMarriageDay
#BadmintonDay
#CaptainKirksBirthday
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Seals are among the most captivating of marine mammals, moving with ease between the open ocean and the rugged coasts where they come ashore to rest 🦭🌊
#InternationalSealDay #Seals #MarineMammals #OceanConservation #Biodiversity #WildlifeConservation
Happy #InternationalSealDay! 🦭
Let's create a safer and cleaner home for these adorable creatures through our joint efforts! 💚
#SailingTogether
"There's a seal!" - AMY BRIGGS, Do Shark Stories Help Sharks?, Overheard at National Geographic #OverheardNatGeo #shark #InternationalSealDay #AmyBriggs
Happy #InternationalSealDay 2026 - Today is a day to raise awareness about the need to protect #seals and their environment. This is an Australian Fur Seal at #Narooma where seals and people co-exist to the benefit of both. #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #animals #wildlife
Happy International Seal Day! 🌊 Every 22nd of March we celebrate International Seal Day.
With their playful and inquisitive nature, seals are always a fascinating sight in the #BRUVS videos.
#InternationalSealDay #MarineScience
What! I missed #InternationalSealDay yesterday. These playful and intelligent animals are found in oceans all over the globe and play a crucial role in maintaining marine ecosystems. Take a moment to appreciate these amazing creatures and learn more about how we can help protect them. #sealday
