There has been only one sighting of a dog otter in the past couple of weeks but this one had no marks or signs of injury. It is obviously a different animal from the week before as that one had lost some fur and had damaged ears. Here is the latest one having a scratch after getting out of the water.
The cubs are now fairly big but mostly stick fairly close to mum. They are constantly sniffing to keep a nose on what is about.
A little while later they went back down the same way to the water.
Here is the family again. The smaller cub seems mostly to bring up the rear.
We have had a lot of windy weather recently. Here it was fairly calm when they came out of the water but the wind had got up by the time they returned some while later.
The sluice gate is now back up and the ramp is in place to make it easier for them to get up. In Storm Otto a few days ago mother and one cub went through the culvert and had a look over but decided against and came back again. I don't know if it was the gate or the storm or something else that changed their mind.
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