The dog otter doesn't get much of a look in on the blog now that the triplets are here but he is still around. He takes no part in bringing up the cubs but he must be aware of them, by sound and scent at least. To bring you up to date here are a few of his recent videos. Before the rain in the past couple of weeks he was resting when he was disturbed by a moorhen.
And we had one brief snowfall when he put in an appearance.
One reason he stays around is that the living is easy.
A couple of nights ago he had two fresh wounds on his left flank. I haven't edited this one seamlessly but I have doubled up the views from the first two cameras. It looks quite superficial and he doesn't seem limited but I expect he was in a fight - perhaps to defend his territory although I haven't seen a strange otter around on the cameras. I'll look out for him in the coming days.
The mother and cubs are producing more videos almost every day so there will be more from them soon.
Love the scene of him eating his breakfast in the snow, terrific JL
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