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River Otters at SLP early morning Sept. 17! By Robert

9/23/2016

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Early last Sat. morning I had an hour before we had to be at an event, so off to the River I went. As I walked up river on the upper road I saw ripples in the mirrorlike surface and with my binoculars I caught sight of Otters! I through it might be the same family of six we had see further down river at Sutter Landing Park, about three weeks ago.

No one was around so I got as close as I could as they busily continued to dive and catch Crayfish, which they seem to take more of than any other prey in this part of the river. They were working the middle of the river, but soon they swam up and closer the South bank as I slowly followed along. Then at an opening along the bank they could clearly see me and to my surprise they seemed curious and turned towards me! This was a close as I have been to a family of Otters in the river! I smiled and continued to photograph🤗 as they continued to look intrigued!

Had I been able to capture sounds of them splashing and diving as they communicated with squeaks and whistles, it could’ve made for a lively slide show! This is just a sample of more images I got.

Robert on the River


Hope there’s a good videographer out there who’d really like to photograph there awesome animals!
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