After two winters of photographing the otters at Ashland Pond, one of them decided he recognized me and I posed no threat to him. He (or she) gradually started getting closer to me this winter until on Feb 19, he would catch a fish, swim by me as if to show me what he caught, and then take it to a log about 30 yds away to eat it. After eating at least half a dozen large bullhead catfish, he swam over to a log about 15 feet away from me and climbed out on the log to lay in the sun. He even relaxed enough to take a snooze both on the 19th but repeated it on the 21st! When I went to leave, he followed me down the shoreline as if to say,”Hey! Where are you going? I’m still here!” All in all, a great weekend!
