Awwwww.....

Boston Globe Staff Photo: Tom Landers

If you are anything like me you can never get enough of looking at pictures of baby seals.  Especially if, like me, you are suffering from bad news overload.

He had left the frigid bay behind and headed inland, apparently paddling up a river in search of fish, swimming through a flooded brook, and flopping across a stubbly suburban lawn: one badly lost little seal.

Early yesterday, the young harp seal finally abandoned his errant journey. The seal, weighing only 32 pounds and possibly born just a few weeks ago, had traveled more than 25 miles from Mount Hope Bay in Fall River. He was resting near the picket fence of a turquoise house in a residential neighborhood, perilously close to the tree-lined street.

"There's a seal in our front yard!" Amy Kelble, 21, recalled screaming when she discovered the misguided mammal before 6 a.m. Her six brothers and sisters ran into the yard and formed a barrier between the seal and the road to keep him from wandering into the street.

The good news is that the New England Aquarium has an excellent nursery for lost, wayward, and wounded aquatic creatures, where I'm quite sure Kelby is headed.  Take a look and say, "awwww....."