Otters?
I met someone at the town docks parking area today and noticed a large black animal going in and out of the water in front of Lago's docks.
Otter maybe. The person I met stayed to watch and called to say there were two of them, they had big heads and were jet black. While driving to work today I was on top of the Black Cat Island bridge and watched a fox walk across the ice to the island. When I got to the job I looked out and saw the tracks led to the house next to where I was working. Great day for seeing wildlife. |
River Otter?
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Did it look like this guy?
Attachment 7682 File photo, not mine According to F&G: The biggest of New Hampshire's weasels is the RIVER OTTER, at 25 to 40 inches long. These stately creatures of the water are dark chocolate brown in color. Otters may roam as much as nine square miles. As with mink, fish and crayfish make up the majority of their diet. Like other weasels, otters are rarely seen, despite their abundance. The otter sign that I frequently see is where they slide along the snow in the winter |
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Otters are pretty large, more likely a mink, we have a family of them that live near us, there is always a large pile of mussel shells in the water at the end of our dock in the spring.
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We always have a large pile of clam shells by our dock in the spring, too, but thought it might be from the mink. Do you think it is from the otter? We do have otter. I saw one last year right up on the land, quite a ways away from the house. At first I thought it was a dog. He was cute!
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Mink in Lake Shore Park.
We have had Mink in the Marina at LSP. Very elusive little buggers, I've tried to get pictures of them, but they like to stay out of sight by retreating under the docks.
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Ok, sorry I misunderstood. We think they are from the minks too but thought you were saying they were from the otters. :) |
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Am I wrong? I thought mink's fur turned white in the Winter. My wife saw what she thought was a mink in the back yard a couple days ago. It was all white.
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googled "do mink turn white in the winter"
The resounding answer is no...weasels do, mink do not. they may have a little white under their chin, and may have a blaze of while on their brisket, or chest.
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That friend also has live trapped bobcat for a UNH/F&G study and runs his dogs to tree, but not shoot, bear. Says it gives him and his dogs good exercise. Anyway we send all of our wildlife questions his way. |
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I was sitting at the Wolfeboro docks last evening and saw the animal, which at first glance I thought was a beaver. I see lots of beavers as I live near the Merrymeeting river, than soon realized it was not a beaver but an otter and a large one at that. It followed the shoreline under the docks and eventually headed around the corner and down the river to back bay.
He is soon to be crowded out by dozens of fishermen tomorrow. |
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2) A mink family was videotaped on the shore of Winter Harbor—a place I never see otters. (Beaver, yes). http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...9&postcount=10 |
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