Bird Rocks
Harbor Seal, Steller Sea Lion, Eared seal · 21 reports from 14 observers, August 2022 to August 2026
In the atlas
Site 11.22 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.
On intertidal rocks and reef areas around middle Bird Rocks (USFWS ID 80).
The atlas maps this site at 3 points. The others: On intertidal rocks and reef areas around south Bird Rocks (USFWS ID 80)., On intertidal rocks and reef areas around north Bird Rocks (USFWS ID 80)..
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 · 17 reports
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| 2026 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2025 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 2023 | 8 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Steller Sea Lion · 3 reports
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| 2026 | 1 | |||||||||||
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| 2022 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
Eared seal · 1 report
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| 2022 | 1 |
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.
- Aug 15, 2026 · Harbor Seal · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 197 m away · source
- Aug 15, 2026 · Steller Sea Lion · tortellini_man on iNaturalist · 197 m away · source
- Jul 31, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ajustinfocus on iNaturalist · 127 m away · source
- Jun 25, 2026 · Harbor Seal · andygo1 on iNaturalist · 282 m away · source
- Jun 25, 2026 · Harbor Seal · aandmg on iNaturalist · 101 m away · source
- Jun 25, 2026 · Harbor Seal · aandmg on iNaturalist · 101 m away · source
- Jul 24, 2025 · Harbor Seal · team_sidhu-white on iNaturalist · 94 m away · source
- Jul 7, 2025 · Harbor Seal · mkdwoodruff on iNaturalist · 152 m away · source
- Jun 9, 2025 · Steller Sea Lion · jonathaneg on iNaturalist · 152 m away · source
- Aug 3, 2024 · Harbor Seal · ethangraham on iNaturalist · 99 m away · source
- Jul 11, 2024 · Harbor Seal · steveansell on iNaturalist · 122 m away · source
- Jul 21, 2023 · Harbor Seal · ewrunn1ng on iNaturalist · 95 m away · source
- Jul 21, 2023 · Harbor Seal · ewrunn1ng on iNaturalist · 127 m away · source
- Jul 21, 2023 · Harbor Seal · nolandmartin on iNaturalist · 58 m away · source
- Jul 21, 2023 · Harbor Seal · nolandmartin on iNaturalist · 22 m away · source
- Jul 21, 2023 · Harbor Seal · nolandmartin on iNaturalist · 23 m away · source
- Jul 13, 2023 · Harbor Seal · andybridges on iNaturalist · 89 m away · source
- Jul 13, 2023 · Harbor Seal · andybridges on iNaturalist · 138 m away · source
- Jul 13, 2023 · Harbor Seal · andybridges on iNaturalist · 253 m away · source
- Sep 29, 2022 · Eared seal · zoefoster on iNaturalist · 259 m away · source
- Aug 21, 2022 · Steller Sea Lion · jeraz on iNaturalist · 79 m away · location approximate (±9594 m) · source
Of 21 reports, 18 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 2 state no accuracy, and 21 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
Nearby sites
- Belle Rock · 1.0 km · harbor seal
- Burrows Island/West Side · 3.6 km · harbor seal
- Allan Island/NW End · 4.1 km · harbor seal
- Kellett Ledge · 4.6 km · harbor seal
- Lawson Rock · 5.4 km · harbor seal
- Ram Island · 5.4 km · harbor seal