This is the third time in several decades that a large inhabitant of the sea has got lost and found himself so far from his permanent habitat.
Anne Page, a resident of Boston in Lincolnshire, could not believe her eyes when she saw a wild seal in the garden of her house early in the morning.
According to Ms Page, at about 7.30am she went out into the garden to water the plants and found the predator on the porch.
“We looked at each other for a minute. I put down the watering can and went back into the house.
Then I came out to see if it was true and I wasn’t dreaming,” recalls the pensioner.
A distance of 30-40 kilometers stretches between Boston and the North Sea coast where seals live.
How the predator moved through them remains a mystery.
According to Ms Page, the animal could have come to her home via the River Witham.
Her son Rob came to the rescue.
However, there was no need to save his mom, according to the man, the seal looked “tame and relaxed” and showed no aggression.
A little later, police officers and a representative of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals arrived at the call.
Together they managed to move the marine predator from the lawn to the cage.
It was not easy to do this, the seal weighed at least 60 kilograms and was not too pleased with human hands.
According to police Officer Martin Green, seals are extremely rare in Boston.
For 23 years of service, there have been only three such calls.
But at the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals they immediately understood which seal it was.
In recent months, they had received a large number of calls from local residents who had spotted the seal in the city.
But every time we couldn’t catch him.
It turned out that the lost animal is well known by animal rights activists, and he even has a nickname, Dandy.
Dandy is one of seven seals who were rescued in 2017 when they lost their mother.
Employees of the company fed them, and then released them into the wild, to a seal colony on the Welland River.
All the animals were tagged, so it was easy to identify Dandy.
The friendly seal has already repeatedly tried to get in touch with people.
In September, he had scared a woman by jumping on her paddle board.
