I saw a sea otter last night! I can't recall seeing one in that cove before. :^D

[GreenPartyVoter]

[trof]

1. I think our otters are fresh water.

Maybe live in the creeks that feed into the bay.
I saw one in the bay once several years ago.
Swam right by my dock.
Wolf Bay is 'brackish'.
Fed by a couple of creeks to the north and the intracoastal waterway from the south.

We have pelicans, gulls (several kinds), cormorants, great blue herons, lesser herons(?), kingfishers, turkey buzzards, ospreys, porpoises, mullet, mudcats, flounder, redfish, pinfish (bait!), oysters, mussels, blue crabs, etc., etc.

Oh, and coyotes (doesn't everyone?), jauguarundis, deer, raccoons, squirrels (a SURFEIT of them), water rats, foxes, and 'reportedly' black bears (but I've never seen one).

We're awash in fauna.
;-)

[Kali]

4. oooo jaguarundis?

have you ever seen one? I'm jealous!

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Yeah, we've got critters too. :^) I haven't seen the moose or black bears but

my dad did when he was still delivering mail on his route. Definitely have coyotes, but I have only heard them. Saw the silhouette of a bobcat in the headlights one night.

And of course we have all the critters associated with the oceans and swamps in this corner of Maine as well.

[KittyWampus]

2. Otters and beavers are making a slow come back on Long Island. I haven't the joy of finding one yet

In recent years though, Bottini has found good reason to believe there are, once again, otters on Long Island. Not a huge number of them, mind you, but enough to spark his interest. First came reports of the occasional otter sighting, accidental trapping or roadkill, mostly well to the west of the East End, though there were scattered instances reported on both the South and North Fork as well as Shelter Island — including one that ended up in a muskrat trap near Mecox Bay.

More compelling evidence came in April 2006, when a river otter was captured on a video camera that was set up to record alewife migration at Big Fresh Pond in North Sea.

Then Bottini came upon some compelling river otter evidence himself in the Northwest Woods section of East Hampton. Interestingly enough, it was the arrival of another mysterious animal that led him to that evidence — the beaver (or beavers) which showed up in the Grace Estate a couple of years back and have called the pond home ever since.

“At Scoy Pond I was intrigued by the arrival of the beaver,” recalls Bottini. “That first winter it was here, I went on the ice and mapped the trees it had chewed. I found the lodge and looked at one of the paths near it — and saw the otter scat.”



http://www.otterjoy.com/newsarchive2009/news1236.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. That's a great pic