Friday, September 10, 2021

River otters, with dinner

This was a lifer, of sorts. I have seen otters before, always a long way off, sometimes barely visible among the rocks. This time, I came around a rock at the low tide level and surprised one just catching a fish a few metres away.

The photos, in chronological order:

She caught it in the shade of that pointy rock on the right.

Zooming in. A fairly large fish with a whitish belly.

"Look, ma! I've got a green hat!"

She sits on a low rock to gnaw at the fish's tail.

The other two youngsters have noticed me.

The fish looks like a large sculpin, with the striped fan pectoral fin.

Time to go, carrying what remains of the fish. Will she share it with her family?

On their way.

Two stop to look at me again. As curious as kittens!

Off Stories Beach.
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¡Nutrias! Las he visto antes, pero casi siempre muy lejos, confundiéndose entre las rocas. Esta vez, salí de atrás de un roca grande al borde inferior de la zona intramareal, y sorprendí a una pescando a apenas unos pocos metros.

Subí las fotos en orden cronológico.

  1. Con el pescado, grande y con barriga plateada. Lo pescó en la sombra de la roca a la derecha.
  2. Haciendo zoom.
  3. Otra nutria, con un "sombrero" de alga marina verde.
  4. La nutria grande (¿la madre?) se sienta en una roca casi cubierta de agua para comerse su pescado.
  5. Hay otras dos; me han visto, y se detienen para mirarme.
  6. El pescado parece ser una esculpina, por las aletas pectorales grandes y plegadizas.
  7. Y ya se va, llevando consigo el pescado. Tal vez lo compartirá con la familia.
  8. Las cuatro, alejándose.
  9. Pero dos se detienen otra vez para mirarme. ¡Tanta curiosidad!
En la playa Stories.

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