It looks as though the otters have completely taken over the blog, for now at least. I am still refining the camera positions each time to try to cover as much of the action as possible. I have four cameras on the old boardwalk bridge and the otters are triggering about 150 videos a week, mostly in daylight. That's over two hours of videos clips to sort through - after sifting out all the moorhen, water rail, heron and wood mouse pictures. Most recordings don't get edited into a brief story but the best do. Here is the family, close together for once.
At other times the cubs lag behind and mother has to wait for them. I expect the second one is the cub that got lost a few weeks ago. I can't tell if it always the same one dawdling.
The cubs are now over seven months old and fairly well grown but they spend a lot of their time playing and still seem to expect their food to be caught for them. Here is a taste of what they get up to when the cameras are watching.
The dog otter hasn't been around for the past week or so - I expect he's on patrol somewhere else in his territory. More otter news soon.
Really really special. Thank you
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