I was fortunate enough to have the chance to spend a day at a grey seal colony during the busiest event in their year, breeding/pupping time. my initial thought when coming across the pup with it's head in the traffic cone took me to
Harry Potter and the allotting of which school house it would belong.
Then the sad realisation that only hours old and it's first contact with the impact that will follow it for the rest of it's life amongst human debris/ pollution.
Will it escape future entanglement in discarded fishing gear, ingesting plastic fragments etc, in only five weeks time it will be left on it's own to fend for itself without the benefit of education as to the pitfalls we lay in it's path, wish it well.