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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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who knows? Yet, otters have now reappeared.<\/p>\n

A family of six otters paused briefly on a dock in the dusky light well before dawn.
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