If you’ve walked the waterfront path at Lincoln Park lately, you too might have seen a river otter engaged in beachfront dining. The photo above was sent by KT, taken by husband Robert on Friday; the one below is from Adam, taken on Saturday:
And yes, those are RIVER otters, not sea otters, which are seldom seen around here. Learn more about them here – and don’t be surprised to see one crossing a road or sidewalk, as sometimes their dens are inland.
And how are they getting there? I’m fascinated. Hopefully they stay safe. People tend to harm wildlife in these parts.
I know some dogs love the water but these creatures are why are why dogs do not belong on beaches, off leash, in the water like I saw yesterday
💯! Those dog owners don’t care. I pity the doggies who have such stupid, arrogant and entitled owners!
This is not civic discourse that helps us building understanding across differences or solve problems. I’m a dog owner. I don’t take my dog on beaches. Your insults aren’t directed at me, but they’re still toxic to read. Can’t we do better than this?
Yesterday an otter got into the fenced in area of our free ranging chickens and was chasing them around in a circle. It caught my gray one and two black ones flew the coop. I was shocked and astonished at how unabashed it was after initially running away from me hooting and hollering. It poked its head under my neighbor’s shed and looked at me unafraid. It then slid its way back into my yard trying to get back into the fenced in area I stood in. My friend and I got the chickens back in their coop and I was there a bit longer trying to secure the bottom of the gate which is finicky. Finally, I realized this otter was not scared of me screaming or throwing things at and near it so I bailed to safer, higher ground where my little kid was how sick from school and crying watching these shenanigans. Last week we had seen a river otter near Alki Don Armenian boat launch and watched its cute swimming antics and then this week otter terror! Don’t look online for human and otter attacks! One pulled a kid into water briefly in Bremerton.Wild animals are wild! I hope it found a few critters to eat and headed back down to the river.apparently this is when they have babies so maybe it was just very hungry? Or there is water pollution? Less fish at the moment? Not sure.
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