Robert really wanted to go to see the Otters as he has never seen any in the wild, my mind was made up when a text from Robert tells us his car has a flat battery & I offer to do the driving so we set out to get there at first light,
As we get the cameras out of the car & put our boots on, a fellow next to us tells us he has just heard that the Otters are not to far away on the river, so we follow him down the path at the side of the river, as we walk we see a man standing by the river & we ask him if he had seen the Otters, he says they are right in front of us on the bank on the other side of the river to us, we watch & sure enough 2 of them dive into the water & start playing, then one starts to swim down the river,we follow it all the way down under the bridge & back round the other side of the river till it gets to what looks like it's Holt, it jumps up into the leaves & seems to settle down for a long stay.
So we leave to go back up towards the car when we see the other one swim past us & we follow it down & it follows the same route as the other one till it gets to the Holt & jumps up with the other one.
We had also seen a nice Kingfisher sitting on a branch where the Otters had come out of.
Robert is over the moon at what he had just seen, it's nice to have him out with us, shame Brian is missing but maybe we might all make it next time, that would be great.
Off for Rob to get some photos of the Dipper, Jimmy & myself had already seen this last week, but we still take more photos of it. Met some more nice people to talk to & you don't see Otters every day, so a really good decision to come today.
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