THIS amazing video footage shows a seal in Warrington.

Seals are seen now and then in the town in the River Mersey.

This seal was seen recently trying to climb the banks of the river by Bridge Foot and Marshall Gardens.

It was filmed by passer-by Aaliyah Delgado.

Another who spotted the seal was Ryan Parry.

He said: “I have been fishing around the Mersey over the past two weeks when I spotted a seal trying to climb up Woolston Weir, and it greeted us.

“I have also spotted one sleeping on the mud bank down past Riverside Retail Park.”

A survey in 2023 by the Mersey Rivers Trust revealed some of the amazing wildlife that has been reported in the Mersey estuary in Warrington, including bull huss sharks.

Speaking to the BBC, senior project manager Mark Duddy, said that the survey's results were 'amazing' - the river was even considered 'biologically dead' in the 1970s and '80s.

Mark said: "The river was full of industrial pollution and sewage, it was possibly the most polluted river in Europe at the time.

"That continued until about 1985 and since then there's been billions of pounds spent on wastewater treatment works in the region.

"That's prompted this remarkable recovery. Everyone says that our wildlife is in decline, that's actually the opposite in the Mersey where wildlife is on this rapid improvement curve."