Appears to be only the second ribbon seal on record to make it so far south.
Ribbon seal - Seattle - 19 Jan 2012 - Credit: LDA
A Seattle resident found a strange-looking furry visitor on her property, about a mile from the mouth of the Duwamish River in southern Seattle.
“She woke up and it was lying on her dock, hanging out and sleeping — just chilling,” said Matthew Cleland, district supervisor in western Washington for the USDA’s Wildlife Services.
It was a ribbon seal, an Arctic species that spends most of its life swimming the frigid waters off Alaska and Russia.
One could be forgiven for thinking this a harbinger of things to come, says this article on Yahoo. “This week, cold winds from Alaska helped create a record winter storm in Seattle”
See entire article:
http://news.yahoo.com/rare-sea-creature-appears-seattle-womans-dock-152011178.html
Thanks to Robert Nech, Robert Dean and Brian Inman
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We are seeing record numbers of the artic snowy owl in Iowa and Nebraska. The last eruption this large was in 1955. They are 1000 miles from their post glacial range. Food is noted as a driving force by biologists. Food and perhaps a good hatch this past summer. They are of course wise.
It looks like there might be something to watching what the wild life is doing… They just might know something most people would not choose to believe or recognize untill it is too late.
Imagine seattle starting to look like the north coast of Alaska ,Russia or Norway during an interglacial period.
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Its beautiful, never ever seen a coloured seal before.
and to John the 1st yeah The Sixth winter another old book mentions butterflies in Russia that hatch but die early due to short seasons and cold, and Wolves forming big packs, not their usual family but more.
their theory was it would take just 6 winters of cooling and ice/snow not melting to create the onset of serious Iceage. snow down to chicago style.
i notice that too many records have been broken in too many place in a short time. And another thing, Sahara Desert is currently experiencing snow as well. Here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRszaaaIe6s
Wasn’t it last year that it snowed in Baghdad for the first time in 100 years?
Now I know thats out of the norm.
I was thinking this would be a good story for this site. In Arnold Federbush’s novel “ICE!”(a story about how ice ages begin, or rather how interglacials end) he has a Pennents Martin(native to the great northern taigas) showing up in Tucson, northern fish being caught in Campeche Mexico, and plants ‘migrating’ far south of their normal range. This ties in perfectly with that story line.