United Kingdom · observation
Teddington Lock lifeboat station; later near Eel Pie Island
· Teddington and Twickenham, London, England
A grey seal emerged from the Thames and climbed onto a kayak mount outside the RNLI station at Teddington Lock. The BBC also reports that photographer Tobias Handschuh saw the seal near Eel Pie Island later that day and photographed it eating a fish; the accounts are kept together as one reported animal.
- Species
- Grey seal
- Number of seals
- 1
- Attributed name
- Unidentified
- Source
- BBC News, 21 January 2023 — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64358168
About this record
- Supporting evidence
- The article dates the RNLI encounter to Friday, 20 January 2023. It links the later Eel Pie Island sighting to the same seal; no stable individual identity is established.
- Identification confidence
- Uncertain
- Editorial status
- Published by Seal Watch.
Source wording, attributed names and approximate date labels are preserved. A published report does not establish a verified animal identity.