It was quite warm and sunny today around #DavisCA and alas I did not get out in the AM but managed to head out to #YoloBypass in the early PM. I went on a short walk to a spot I knew would be relatively shady. And along the way saw a few nice things like: 1/n
And then I got to this semi-shady spot with a little water hole and waited. And I was rewarded. First, with an otter swimming by. 2/n
And then what I think was a muskrat waddled by (not 100% sure about the ID). 3/n
And then some large birds flew overhead that I noticed via their shadows. Two were Swainson's hawks: 4/n
One was a raven 5/n
Then, well I head weird noises, like animals fighting. So I got out my phone and made a video mostly to record the house. - you can just barely hear it in this video 6/n
And then I saw some otters and it seemed like they were fighting. I made a video with my phone that has the noises. But I also tried to take pics with my good camera at the same time so the video, well, does not really show that much. 7/n
Here are some of the pics I got while I was also trying to film on phone - gif an otter emerging from the reeds where the noises were coming from - seems to have a cut on its face 8/n
And then another otter emerged, this one with some serious wounds 9/n
And then an otter climbed up on the grassy slope near me and rolled around for a bit and stared at me. Not sure if this was one of the wounded ones or not but it let me take a ton of pics from very close. 10/n
And some more 11/n
And some of my favorites, some of which I posted earlier 12/n
And that is when the fun really began. One otter showed up back in the water. 13/n
And then, well, another one showed up. And they got close. 14/n
And stayed close. For a while. While swimming around. 15/n
So I made another video with my phone since, well, they were making that same "fighting noise" I had heard earlier 16/n
So, yes, as suggested my @MelindaPerle - it is a fine line between love and war some times
So yes, I did get to see mating river otters today.
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