Common seal
The smaller of our two UK seal species, common seals are also known as harbour seals. Despite being called "Common", they are actually less common than grey seals!
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Grey seal
These large seals can often be seen bobbing in the sea or lying on beaches waiting for their food to go down.
Weekly seal update
Donna Nook weekly seal update
Grey seal fact file
Grey seal fact file
Donna Nook seal viewing area and booking system to close following the Government announcement of new national lockdown
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust have taken the decision to close the seal viewing area and the booking system to view the seals at Donna Nook following the Government announcement of new national…
2023 Marine Futures Interns Blog Week 21 & 22: Volunteering as Seal Wardens
As we head into our last month of our internship, we are finishing off our research projects and had the chance to get out in the field for the final time! Over the past two weeks, Jasmine and I…
Botanical Surveying with Jeremy and Caroline
Simon and myself were invited to tag along on a botanical survey this week with LWT’s resident botanist and Wildlife Sites Officer, Jeremy and Caroline.
Donna Nook seal colony volunteers recognised with national award
The Marsh Volunteer Awards for Marine Conservation have been awarded since 2014, and celebrate outstanding contributions made by volunteers to marine conservation around the UK.
Gainsborough Area Group - Autumn 2023 meeting reports
The autumn season of events began with a display of stunning photographs taken around the Gainsborough area, a talk on the seals of Donna Nook and a talk on the deer of Lincolnshire.
Donna Nook FAQs
Take a look at our FAQs for more information on visiting the seals at Donna Nook National Nature Reserve.
My regeneration
30 years ago, if Jeremy had fallen in the river then he’d have been more worried about being poisoned than drowned! A 1980s trawl survey found just one fish in the Billingham reach of the Tees,…
Marine
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…