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Post by musher on Mar 8, 2008 6:05:02 GMT -6
I've seen mink tunnel for a while through the snow. I've seen squirrels, weasels, other stuff, too. But I'd never seen otter tracks that showed the same behaviour.
I would guesstimate that the otter tunnelled 30-50 feet before popping back out.
Did anyone else ever witness such behaviour?
If they do this frequently, some sets that get yanked "because tracks are gone" should stay a little longer.
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Post by bubcat on Mar 8, 2008 18:23:59 GMT -6
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Post by musher on Mar 8, 2008 19:50:54 GMT -6
Bubcat: Good photos.
I've seen the water stuff plenty of times. There was no water. It's a snow tunnel. The holes are "otter" sized!
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Post by northof50 on Mar 8, 2008 19:57:42 GMT -6
Bubcat, great photo. when I see that sign around over-hanging ice, out come the 160's. For the best neck captures. Gone are the days with $ 300.00 otter now our dollar is above the greenbacks.
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Post by bubcat on Mar 8, 2008 20:15:06 GMT -6
Musher that weren't a hole "in" the ice... it was over the top of it...
Below was a frozen stream bed... they appeared to be running along the top of the ice, and started popping in and out right there.... maybe 150 ft or so to where they come in and out again down below....
It was on a feeder stream above a beaver pond...
We see another place this winter... (Typically an eddy off a stream rolling back into a channel in good weather) froze over 1st of February, and they were tunneling some distsance over the eddy and popping up here and there in the snow like prairie dog's.
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Post by JWarren on Mar 8, 2008 20:28:57 GMT -6
Musher that weren't a hole "in" the ice... it was over the top of it... the otter fur looks like water running over the trap in the second pic until you look twice |
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Post by bubcat on Mar 8, 2008 21:13:56 GMT -6
the otter fur looks like water running over the trap in the second
pic until you look twice
Trick photography... LOL
They were just stepping in there and tunneling over the top of the ice, following the stream bed... that ice (shows up better in the last pic) was about 4 inches through right there where they'd hollowed out under the snow.
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Post by musher on Mar 8, 2008 21:28:12 GMT -6
Thanks, JWarren!
I reread Bubcats post a few times, looked at the pic a few times, and thought, "I don't get it!" Then I scrolled down and read your post.
I looked and saw what I wanted to see as opposed to what was in the pic. Water instead of fur.
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Post by bubcat on Mar 8, 2008 21:34:19 GMT -6
No water... cold snap.. it'd been 15 to 20 below at least a week running in that pic... Does look it though.... I shoulda put in little captions with each pic..
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