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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Captured on camera - a Ronald Bog otter

Ronald Bog Otter.  Photo by Martin DeGrazia.

These normally elusive critters have lived in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park long before we two-legged types showed up, but they generally stay out of sight, living in our lakes, bogs, and streams.  These are fresh-water river otters, cousins to the salt-water types commonly seen in zoos, and TV programs.

There are otters in Ronald Bog, Echo Lake, McAleer Creek, and certainly other bodies of water.  Otters will travel across land and there have been several reports of otters in Kruckeberg Gardens.

Wonder what else is in the streams and woodlands?


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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 3, 2011 at 10:30 AM

    great photo!
    otters in Kruckeberg, how can that be? Don't they require a watery habitat?

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  2. AnonymousNovember 9, 2011 at 12:31 PM

    Yay, I saw that guy this morning, while waiting for my bus! There were two playing in the water.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Saw the pair of them on 11-20 swimming and playing. Thought they were muskrats a first, but their heads were too large and they were so supple of movement. Did not know they were this far up the local creek drainages.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 24, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    i watch them feeding in Echo Lake regularly. I thought it was unusual until I read this story.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 24, 2011 at 7:30 PM

    This must be whose head I saw popping out of the bog while I drove my bus up Meridian the other day!

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  6. AnonymousJuly 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM

    We saw one this morning swimming around at about 6:30--he (or she) seemed to be having a lot of fun.

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