Shilshole Bay Area
California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, Steller Sea Lion, Steller sea lion, Sea lion · 105 reports from 59 observers, February 2014 to October 2026
In the atlas
Site 10.19 in the WDFW Atlas of Seal and Sea Lion Haulout Sites in Washington (Jeffries et al., 2000), surveyed in the late 1990s: California sea lion · fewer than 10 animals · used at all tidal states.
On floats and bouys of Shilshole Bay jetty.
The atlas maps this site at 2 points. The others: On south tip of Shilshole Bay jetty..
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.
California Sea Lion · 59 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 19 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
| 2024 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 2023 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2022 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2020 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| 2015 |
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.
Harbor Seal · 40 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2022 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 2019 | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller Sea Lion · 4 reports
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2025 | ||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller sea lion · 1 report
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2025 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Sea lion · 1 report
| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2025 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Photos from the reports. Each links to its source; the attribution is in the tooltip.
- Oct 3, 2026 · Harbor Seal · medamaudee on iNaturalist · 214 m away · source
- Sep 5, 2026 · Harbor Seal · mayaklem on iNaturalist · 230 m away · source
- Aug 30, 2026 · California Sea Lion · ebluth on iNaturalist · 120 m away · source
- Aug 23, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ccheryln on iNaturalist · 214 m away · source
- Aug 23, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ejprice on iNaturalist · 215 m away · source
- Aug 5, 2026 · Harbor Seal · austiinfrankliin on iNaturalist · 268 m away · source
- Jul 18, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ewrunn1ng on iNaturalist · 215 m away · source
- Jul 18, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ewrunn1ng on iNaturalist · 266 m away · source
- Jun 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · zhongze_ on iNaturalist · 214 m away · source
- Jun 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · omaras18 on iNaturalist · 261 m away · source
- May 28, 2026 · California Sea Lion · lorax55 on iNaturalist · 218 m away · source
- May 26, 2026 · Steller sea lion · bachmans on iNaturalist · 258 m away · source
- May 26, 2026 · California Sea Lion · bachmans on iNaturalist · 242 m away · source
- May 24, 2026 · Sea lion · ravasquez on iNaturalist · 233 m away · source
- May 23, 2026 · California Sea Lion · annieerika on iNaturalist · 296 m away · source
- May 18, 2026 · California Sea Lion · wesgapp on iNaturalist · 215 m away · source
- May 17, 2026 · California Sea Lion · fjordfern on iNaturalist · 210 m away · source
- May 16, 2026 · California Sea Lion · makennap on iNaturalist · 213 m away · source
- May 11, 2026 · California Sea Lion · michelle46569 on iNaturalist · 245 m away · source
- May 11, 2026 · California Sea Lion · aksharac on iNaturalist · 251 m away · source
- May 10, 2026 · California Sea Lion · drrkellar on iNaturalist · 154 m away · source
- May 8, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · skreling on iNaturalist · 216 m away · source
- May 6, 2026 · California Sea Lion · theottergirl on iNaturalist · 255 m away · source
- May 6, 2026 · California Sea Lion · otterlycurious629 on iNaturalist · 231 m away · source
- May 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · scottveirs on iNaturalist · 246 m away · source
- May 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · insulinde on iNaturalist · 218 m away · source
- May 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · insulinde on iNaturalist · 223 m away · source
- May 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · insulinde on iNaturalist · 220 m away · source
- May 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · insulinde on iNaturalist · 226 m away · source
- May 5, 2026 · California Sea Lion · jannabananaslug on iNaturalist · 247 m away · source
- May 3, 2026 · California Sea Lion · mayaklem on iNaturalist · 246 m away · source
- May 3, 2026 · California Sea Lion · naturalistnoey on iNaturalist · 215 m away · source
- Apr 27, 2026 · California Sea Lion · npyl on iNaturalist · 217 m away · source
- Apr 27, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · npyl on iNaturalist · 210 m away · source
- Apr 26, 2026 · California Sea Lion · jillsaf310 on iNaturalist · 251 m away · source
- Apr 20, 2026 · California Sea Lion · lorax55 on iNaturalist · 273 m away · source
- Apr 18, 2026 · California Sea Lion · ewrunn1ng on iNaturalist · 93 m away · source
- Apr 18, 2026 · California Sea Lion · ewrunn1ng on iNaturalist · 246 m away · source
- Apr 15, 2026 · California Sea Lion · digitalbio on iNaturalist · 223 m away · source
- Apr 15, 2026 · California Sea Lion · lorax55 on iNaturalist · 271 m away · source
and 65 earlier reports.
Of 105 reports, 90 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 13 state no accuracy, and 99 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
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