Backyard Wildlife

[Gyrfalcon22]

Did you catch any fish afterwards?

After watching them for a while, since they are so cool, I usually just pack up and find another spot.

The side sloughs off of the big river, heck everything is all closed here. Oddly, and I know they love trout but the otters I see pretty much dine on crawdads and sculpins. Outside of smolt season there are not many salmonids in this river stretch.

 

[SpeyrodGB]

This otter was not really happy with my presence. He came up from diving for crawdads and sculpins to find me too close and slapped the water like the way a beaver often does. Have never seen this from an Otter before. Next time surfacing he swam right over and gave me a long, slow stare down.

After a bit of more fishing he jumped a log and went on to sunning some, but still kept an eye on me !
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I’d say you’ve been “mean mugged”.

 

[Gary Knowels]

This otter was not really happy with my presence. He came up from diving for crawdads and sculpins to find me too close and slapped the water like the way a beaver often does. Have never seen this from a river otter before. Next time surfacing he swam right over and gave me a long, slow stare down.

After a bit of more scavenging he jumped a log and went on to sunning some, but still kept an eye on me !
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I had one do that to me while fishing Lake Sylvia 8ish years ago.

 

[Stonedfish]

Just chillin out enjoying the day and the safety of my backyard after mowing some of my grass. I need to do some mowing myself.
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