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Title: A river otter at my farm
Post by: Darren Haverstick on August 20, 2025, 12:21:44 PM

https://youtu.be/bAj6O8yTK8M (https://youtu.be/bAj6O8yTK8M)

I was at my farm for a couple of days to visit my dad and went squirrel hunting Monday morning. There is a ridge on the west side of our lower field that has a bunch of hickories and I figured it would be a good place to check out first. On my way there, I needed to cross the creek that runs through our place. It is mostly dry right now except for a few pockets of water. Something caught my eye in one of those pools and I realized it was a river otter making breakfast out of the minnows and crawdads that had no place to run to. This video is my attempt to film him while the horse flies made their breakfast out of me. Man, those things are bad this year! My video looks like a "Blair Witch Project" version of Wild Kingdom.

Darren

Title: Re: A river otter at my farm
Post by: Winter Hawk on August 20, 2025, 03:39:22 PM

:yessir: That's really neat!  :bow Of course, if it had been a SEA otter I would be doubly impressed!  :laffing :laffing :laffing

~Kees~

Title: Re: A river otter at my farm
Post by: Bigsmoke on August 20, 2025, 07:35:06 PM

Quote from: Winter Hawk on August 20, 2025, 03:39:22 PM

:yessir: That's really neat!  :bow Of course, if it had been a SEA otter I would be doubly impressed!  :laffing :laffing :laffing

~Kees~

And the sea otter would be really, really lost.

Title: Re: A river otter at my farm
Post by: doggoner on August 20, 2025, 11:52:19 PM

You said what I thought Bigsmoke. Still a fun thing to watch.

doggoner

Title: Re: A river otter at my farm
Post by: KDubs on August 21, 2025, 08:05:24 AM

I think someone lost their Weiner dog.
 Cool video, can't say if I've ever seen one of them in the woods.
 You get any tree rats did ya?
 Kevin

Title: Re: A river otter at my farm
Post by: Darren Haverstick on August 21, 2025, 10:37:28 AM

Quote from: KDubs on August 21, 2025, 08:05:24 AM

You get any tree rats did ya?
 Kevin

(https://i.imgur.com/JFX9KdB.jpeg)

Kevin, squirrel hunting was poor. It was approximately one million degrees and I spent most of my time eating spider webs. I saw just a few squirrels and was not able to bring any of those to the house. They are starting to whittle on hickory nuts, so I expect the hunting to pick up soon.

Darren

Title: Re: A river otter at my farm
Post by: KDubs on August 23, 2025, 07:57:09 AM

Hopefully they will come.
 The weather sucks huh !
  High 90s here till next weekend.
 Our big game seasons start Aug 30th.  It needs to cool down for some bow hunting.
 Well , good luck to ya. Shoot straight.
Kevin