Willow Island
Harbor Seal, California Sea Lion · 3 reports from 3 observers, May 2014 to September 2026
In the atlas
Site 12.43 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.
Intertidal areas around Willow Island (USFWS ID 55).
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 · 2 reports
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| 2022 | 1 |
Reports per month, as identified on iNaturalist by the people who filed them.
California Sea Lion · 1 report
Photos from the reports. Each links to its source; the attribution is in the tooltip.
- Sep 5, 2026 · Harbor Seal · ethelrose777 on iNaturalist · 382 m away · location approximate (±1826 m) · source
- Aug 13, 2022 · Harbor Seal · brnhn on iNaturalist · 376 m away · source
- May 24, 2014 · California Sea Lion · kathawk on iNaturalist · 452 m away · location approximate (±1953 m) · source
Of 3 reports, 0 state a location accurate to within 500 m, 1 state no accuracy, and 3 carry a photo. Reports rarely say how many animals were present, so no counts are shown.
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