Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: river otter

  • Otter Outing

    It swims and dives with great readiness and with peculiar ease and elegance of movement… Thomas Bell on otters, 1874 I recently spent a couple of days with a great group of guys in my favorite winter haunts – Pocosin Lakes and Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuges. The first day started out beautifully with a rich Read more…

  • That Makes Scents

    …neither fish nor beast is the otter. ~Ted Hughes Driving down a dirt road last week on the Pungo Unit, I spotted something up ahead. It wasn’t a critter, but rather a distinctive sign made by an animal. As I got closer, I could see it was a very large area that had been marked Read more…