islandgun Posted February 22, 2023 Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 Nice to see this Otter today. In its natural habitat rummaging about in some rock pools looking for Blennies or shore crabs. maybe not so welcome in a stocked fish pond down south.đ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rim Fire Posted February 22, 2023 Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 I was sat in a high seat over watching one of our pens and heard a splash i thought to myself here comes Charlie and to my surprise it was an Otter the first one i have seen on our shoot i didn't get a great picture like that  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbyathome Posted February 22, 2023 Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 brilliant picture and nice to see one doing its natural thing instead of raiding fish lakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted February 22, 2023 Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 1 hour ago, islandgun said: Nice to see this Otter today. In its natural habitat rummaging about in some rock pools looking for Blennies or shore crabs. maybe not so welcome in a stocked fish pond down south.đ Brilliant photo I G , we have got Otters but I seem to find them very illusive , I have often seen the foot prints going across the mud flats and bumped into people who have told they had just seen one yet I am up along the river virtually every day and only managed to see them on the odd occasion . maybe the time will come where we see nearly as many dead Otters on the road verges as we do deer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yates Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 Great photo, seen lots in Northumberland and Scotland when on holiday but only witness mink around us in South Yorkshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 17 hours ago, marsh man said: Brilliant photo I G , we have got Otters but I seem to find them very illusive , I have often seen the foot prints going across the mud flats and bumped into people who have told they had just seen one yet I am up along the river virtually every day and only managed to see them on the odd occasion . maybe the time will come where we see nearly as many dead Otters on the road verges as we do deer One lives in hope. There's no other means of control. A trip on the Broads should cure that, they come out for fun, so I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down South Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 Last weeks news, otters accused of killing recently released beaver kits on Loch Lomond. What a dilemma! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted February 23, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 48 minutes ago, Down South said: Last weeks news, otters accused of killing recently released beaver kits on Loch Lomond. What a dilemma! Maybe they should introduce some lynx to keep the otters down. đ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down South Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 There was an old lady that swallowed a flyâŚâŚ.etcâŚâŚetc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted February 23, 2023 Report Share Posted February 23, 2023 7 hours ago, Penelope said: One lives in hope. There's no other means of control. A trip on the Broads should cure that, they come out for fun, so I hear.  Paul ,  You can blame Mr Phillip Wayre for the numbers of Otters that are now in every inland waterway in the U K that hold fish, he brought them back from the brink and now the fisheries are feeling the brunt of the numbers up and down the country . When the Coypu got out of control they introduced Coypu Control and with the help of the 62 / 63 Winter they nigh on brought them to extinction , now they are tucked away in the history books . Trouble is now we are in a vastly different world than we were in the early sixties , hands up the public who would like to see a Otter Control come into force , can't see many at the moment and I very much doubt there will be many with there hands up .  MM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted February 24, 2023 Report Share Posted February 24, 2023 13 hours ago, marsh man said:  Paul ,  You can blame Mr Phillip Wayre for the numbers of Otters that are now in every inland waterway in the U K that hold fish, he brought them back from the brink and now the fisheries are feeling the brunt of the numbers up and down the country . When the Coypu got out of control they introduced Coypu Control and with the help of the 62 / 63 Winter they nigh on brought them to extinction , now they are tucked away in the history books . Trouble is now we are in a vastly different world than we were in the early sixties , hands up the public who would like to see a Otter Control come into force , can't see many at the moment and I very much doubt there will be many with there hands up .  MM As I am sure you will know, otters donât only eat fish. They will eat anything with blood in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted February 24, 2023 Report Share Posted February 24, 2023 58 minutes ago, London Best said: As I am sure you will know, otters donât only eat fish. They will eat anything with blood in it. When the Coypus first escaped from the nutria farms in the Broadland area they were in there natural environment , a good food sauce , waterways and isolation , within a short time they had multiplied and were out of control , this could be the same with the Otter only on a slower scale , Is it right they have got a bullet prof ( excuse the pun ) protection order and at the moment it would be nigh on impossible to get a license to cull a few ? In Thetford they are becoming a tourist attraction with them now getting tame and the people can watch them playing and swimming in the small river which is on the outskirts of the town . For the time being they are going nowhere and we will have to learn to live with the increasing numbers .  MM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted February 24, 2023 Report Share Posted February 24, 2023 1 hour ago, London Best said: As I am sure you will know, otters donât only eat fish. They will eat anything with blood in it.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billytheghillie Posted February 26, 2023 Report Share Posted February 26, 2023 plenty of them up here on the Tweed, they have become a common sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dessyb Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 river rother running through derbys/ s yorkshire has them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yates Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 26/02/2023 at 15:31, billytheghillie said: plenty of them up here on the Tweed, they have become a common sight. Agree with that. I was fly-fishing for Trout last March in the Tweed a mile up stream from Berwick and mother and two youngsters swam past whilst I was wading mid stream. For some reason I did not get so much as a pull that session Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rim Fire Posted March 18, 2023 Report Share Posted March 18, 2023 (edited) I've got no problems with otters infact I like seeing them my biggest problem is Gosshawks Tawny owls and Buzzards so to combat this we put a couple of hundred more poults down to combat with losses if we create food sauces for these creatures then we got to put up with the cosaquensis Edited March 18, 2023 by Rim Fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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