A seal has been rescued by an animal welfare group after they spotted it with a pink frisbee around its neck - a year after they helped another seal stuck in the same way.
David Vyse, of Friends of Horsey Seals, said the second Atlantic grey was rescued at Horsey beach, on the Norfolk coast, on Wednesday.
The seal, with a pink plastic disc around her neck, has been named Mrs Pink Frisbee by the group and is now being treated at an RSPCA centre.
She was first spotted in September and a team of four volunteers finally managed to capture her using special nets and a stretcher.
The Atlantic grey seal was rescued with a pink frisbee around her neck on Horsey beach, Norfolk on Wednesday
Mr Vyse described it as a 'horrible predicament' for Mrs Pink Frisbee, a female grey seal who he estimates is about four years old.
He said the frisbee is 'deeply embedded and extremely infected'.
The first Atlantic grey, nicknamed Mrs Frisbee, was rescued at Horsey beach in 2017 by volunteers from the group.
The yellow plastic disc, which cut into the seal's neck as she grew bigger, was removed at the RSPCA's East Winch Wildlife Centre near King's Lynn.
She was nursed back to health and released into the wild in February this year.
Mrs Pink Frisbee has been taken to the RSPCA centre at East Winch for treatment.
David Vyse, of Friends of Horsey Seals, said the frisbee is 'deeply embedded and extremely infected' and the seal was taken to the RSPCA centre at East Winch for treatment
Mr Vyse said there have been four more reported sightings of seals with frisbees around their necks off the Norfolk coast.
When Mrs Frisbee was admitted to the RSPCA centre last year she was described as having an extended neck like a concertina.
She was given antibiotics and steroids, and fed a mackerel diet. She swelled from 67kg (10 stone 7lbs) to 180kg (28 stone 4lbs) in the five months before her release back into the North Sea.
An adorable pair of grey seals were also pictured nuzzling up for a kiss after being caught on camera frolicking in the surf on a Welsh beach.
Wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek Peters spotted the two seals on Sunday in Angel Bay, North Wales.
They had been playing in the surf for several hours before completing their mating ritual.
Sealing the deal: The pair of seals canoodle in the surf after spending several hours flirting on the beach in Wales
Wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek Peters, 53, from Shropshire captured the shots after watching the couple play in a makeshift hide on the cliffs on Sunday
People are not allowed to step on to the beach in Angel Bay in North Wales so Mr Peters said he waited patiently for the perfect shot using a long lens
Mr Peters' captured a series of stunning shots of the seals from a makeshift hide on a cliff overlooking the beach.
People are not allowed to walk on to the beach but Mr Peters was still able to spot the seals performing an elaborate mating ritual on Sunday afternoon.
Mr Peters, 53, from Lydbury North in Shropshire, said: 'For conservation reasons photographers are not allowed on the beach so I stayed on a cliff with a long lens.
'I was thrilled with the images, these two beautiful seals were flirting with each other and rolling around in the waves.
'They look almost human as they have mating behaviour and it was wonderfully capped with them even kissing each other.'
The happy couple feature in a series of stunning pictures of the seal colony on the beach and Mr Peters said he was thrilled with how the images had come out
But scientists have warned young seals could be at risk from man-made toxins released being released into British waters (pictured are the pair splashing around at Angel Bay, Wales)
But scientists in Scotland have warned young seals could be at risk from man-made toxins released being released into British waters.
A study by Abertay University in Dundee has found contaminants in chemicals could be making its way into seal mothers' milk.
The chemicals - known as PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) and DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) - can be found in paint or electrical transformers but a ban on the substances introduced in 2000 has started to reverse some of the effects.
Lead researcher Dr Kimberley Bennett said: 'We've known for a long time that high levels of these chemicals are very dangerous and can hamper reproduction and immunity in marine mammals.
The National Trust said baby seal numbers in England were at an all-time high on Farne Island in Northumberland and Blakeney Point in Norfolk
'They may even drive some populations towards extinction.
'Efforts to reduce levels in the environment have been successful.
'But our new research shows that blubber, which is a vital for seals and whales, could be vulnerable to harmful effects [from these chemicals].'
Grey seals in the UK usually mate for around eight weeks during the autumn months or early in the winter.
Females can raise pups and breed for up to 25 years of their lives and usually live until they are around 35.
They do not mate for life and often only a few males dominate the breeding among the colony.
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