2021 End of year review - Day 3

This is day three of my end-of-year review.  There is no particular reason why otters should be mainly active at night but a thousand or two years of human persecution have probably changed their behaviour.  Otters are elusive creatures at the best of times so it is real thrill to see one in daylight.  Even the trail cameras, away from human activity, still record most of their images in black & white at night.  Last winter there were several recordings of daytime action, including this video of an otter breaking the ice to get into the water, recorded on three adjacent cameras in January.