Chuckanut Bay Area
Harbor Seal · 5 reports from 5 observers, May 2014 to February 2026
In the atlas
Site 09.15 in the WDFW Atlas of Seal and Sea Lion Haulout Sites in Washington (Jeffries et al., 2000), surveyed in the late 1990s: harbor seal · fewer than 100 animals · used mainly at low tide.
Scattered intertidal rocks and reefs in Chuckanut Bay.
This entry was extracted from the atlas's tables by machine and has not yet been checked against the printed page. Its coordinates are the atlas's, in a 1927 datum, and may sit up to 200 m from where a modern map puts them.
Reports
Pinniped sightings reported within 500 m of this point, nearly all from iNaturalist. A report here says someone saw seals or sea lions near a known site; it does not say which animals, or how many.
Harbor Seal · 5 reports
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Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them; the grid shows the last 12 years, and there are earlier reports.
Photos from the reports. Each links to its source; the attribution is in the tooltip.
- Feb 21, 2026 · Harbor Seal · tygeronix on iNaturalist · 278 m away · source
- May 10, 2025 · Harbor Seal · sydnianajones on iNaturalist · 267 m away · location approximate (±1081 m) · source
- Jun 27, 2023 · Harbor Seal · nutmegnw on iNaturalist · 99 m away · source
- Sep 25, 2021 · Harbor Seal · estep on iNaturalist · 341 m away · source
- May 28, 2014 · Harbor Seal · mossytoes on iNaturalist · 116 m away · source
Of 5 reports, 3 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 1 state no accuracy, and 5 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Rocks off Wildcat Cove · 3.3 km · harbor seal
- Bellingham Bay · 4.5 km · harbor seal
- Bellingham Bay · 5.8 km · harbor seal
- Bellingham Bay · 6.1 km · harbor seal
- Eliza Rocks · 7.1 km · harbor seal