I was delighted to see a half-dozen featureless grey ghosts visit a dilapidated dock in the faint light well before dawn. They constituted a family of otters.
In recent times, I had been wondering about local otters for I had not seen any for 28 months. Had our local otter numbers actually diminished? Had I merely been inattentive? Could it have been both?
Who knows? Yet, otters have now reappeared.
A family of six otters paused briefly on a dock in the dusky light well before dawn.
These look like very large otters. Or is it just an illusion in the “dusky light of dawn?”
I was standing on my dock on the North Shore near Balfour and three otters swam straight towards me, porpoising as they went. I stood stock still and they swam directly underneath me, came up the other side of the dock and surfaced for a few seconds to scrutinize me before continuing on their way. Delightful! They seem to be one of the most playful of creatures.