A sleepy sunbathing seal pup caught the eye of a local photographer when it was spotted lazily sunbathing on a beach on the Outer Banks, North Carolina.

Cory Godwin shared a video of the seal pup soaking up the winter sunshine to Facebook on February 25. In the clip, the seal seems to lift his head up in the direction of the camera, before lying back down to relax.

The video had been watched by 372,000 people and received 4,000 shares at the time of writing. Credit: Facebook/CoryGodwinProductions via Storyful