Otter - Lutra lutra
Canon 600mm f5 for 1/2500th @ iso400
Further down the coast from the dog otters territory an otter relaxes after a fishing session on a bed of seaweed as the tide rises.
A dilemma was fast approaching for me and me only, the incoming tide was now floating the otters bed of seaweed, for me I had inches to spare from getting even wetter than i was sitting on the damp sandy gravel.
Almost a "mexican standoff" would the otter return to fishing and how prepared to start wading was I, to get up would have meant disturbing the animal from its resting place so it was a case of sitting it out.
The situation resoled itself when the otter returned to fish the incoming tide, I watched it diving and shovelling about in the seaweed and shallow waters as it moved along the coastline in gorgeous late afternoon sunshine.
Further down the coast from the dog otters territory an otter relaxes after a fishing session on a bed of seaweed as the tide rises.
A dilemma was fast approaching for me and me only, the incoming tide was now floating the otters bed of seaweed, for me I had inches to spare from getting even wetter than i was sitting on the damp sandy gravel.
Almost a "mexican standoff" would the otter return to fishing and how prepared to start wading was I, to get up would have meant disturbing the animal from its resting place so it was a case of sitting it out.
The situation resoled itself when the otter returned to fish the incoming tide, I watched it diving and shovelling about in the seaweed and shallow waters as it moved along the coastline in gorgeous late afternoon sunshine.