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When the north winds quiet down, the surface of the St. Lawrence ends up looking like a mirror, frozen solid by the polar cold and glistening in the sunlight. Between two drifting ice blocks suddenly appears a small black head with a pointed muzzle and thin whiskers. Last Sunday, posted at Cap de Bon-D\u00e9sir in Les Bergeronnes<\/strong>, a GREMM employee saw a few solitary seals here and there, standing out against the deep blue and pristine white of the surrounding landscape.<\/p>\n

A few days earlier, photographer Renaud Pintiaux also captured the silhouette of a few pinnipeds that had ventured into the Estuary. \u201cSuch a quiet morning. So beautiful,\u201d he writes. In total, there are two harbour seals and three or four harp seals in Les Bergeronnes<\/strong>, and two more harbour seals in Les Escoumins<\/strong>. Renaud also got word of a large herd of seals in the area, far offshore.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a captain in Les Escoumins<\/strong> notes the presence of a handful of large seals a few hundred metres from shore, but did not comment on the species. As for cetaceans, make no mistake about it: \u201cThe St. Lawrence is currently covered in fields of ice. Even if whales were there, they would be very difficult to spot,\u201d explains the pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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