Contents and Otter Video Clips
Introduction
Video clips: male otter swimming up beaver channel to grass at my feet, taken June 5,2001, at the Big Pond; continuing clip, otter reacts to me; continuing clip, otter is confronted by a beaver and encouraged to leave pond
How an otter defines its territory and home range
Video clips: a male otter marks territory along Beaver Point Pond, April 21, 1999; two otters swimming in the channel between Picton and Grindstone islands; mother and pup drive off otters swimming down Second Swamp Pond, September 13, 2004; two otters briefly engage, probably in a sexual encounter, on bank of Beaver Pond Pond, April 23, 1999; otter visits latrine at the East Trail Pond wary of beavers and perhaps male otters, April 15,2001; otter mother hide's pups in beaver's cache (not pleasing the beaver) as male otter swim down Upper Second Swamp Pond, October 21, 2005; otter scats on bank of Lost Swamp Pond, June 4, 2005;
Otter dens
Video clips: otter goes from Beaver Point Pond to den in rocks above small pond below, June 5, 1999; otter snorts from that den, showing her nose, June 30, 1799; otter mother looks for pups in den in rock shore of Otter Hole Pond, then takes them to Beaver Point; pups go up out of East Trail Pond and check old den inside trunk of fallen pine tree;
An otter family's reunion in May
Video clips: May 7, 2000, two otters in the Lost Swamp, perhaps year old juveniles; four otters in South Bay marshh on June 24, 2003; May 17, 2000, reunion of three otters in Lost Swamp Pond, short and long versions
Introduction to otter pups Video clips: July 14, 2003, mother with one pup; July 2002, mother with two pups; July 19, 2000, mother with three pups and helper. How a mother raises one pup Video clips: July 12, 2004, mother in South Bay catching a fish for pup to play with (two clips); same mother and pup fishing in East Trail Pond on July 14, 2004, (four clips). Mother raising two pups, July 2002 Video clips: in East Trail Pond, July 11, 2002 (four clips); July 19, 2000, clip of three pups in Otter Hole Pond; July 14, 2002, in East Trail Pond Mother raising two pups, July 2001 Video clips: pups and mother in grass by East Trail Pond, July 19, 2001 (three clips); April 15, 2001, otter marking in East Trail Pond; July 9, 2001, one otter fishing in East Trail Pond; July 31, 2002, two pups and mother leaving East Trail Pond in evening; July 23, 2005, otter mother checking den for pups, then chirping for them in South Bay marsh (two clips). Mother raising two pups, July and August, 2001, Video Clips: Mother and pup on East Trail Pond slope, July 26, 2001 (three clips); pups and mother in East Trail Pond, August 2, 2001; pups and mother fishing in pool behind Beaver Point Pond dam, with herons, August 15, 2001, (four clips) Mother raising two pups, August 2002 Video clips: otters fishing off beaver lodge in Audubon Pond, August 12, 2002 (three clips); same otters, same pond on August 17, 2002 (three clips). Mother raising two pups, August 2002, continued Video clips: mother pups in Otter Hole Pond, August 23, 2002, (three clips); mother and pups face off with a beaver in Lost Swamp Pond, August 26, 2002. Mother raising three pups, August 2003 Video clips: five otters in East Trail Pond, August 2, 2003 (two clips) more to come
name
description
time
page 14
mother passing a fish to a pup as it
swims by
7 secs
page 15
otter family foraging and playing in
pond along rocks below me
62 secs
page 16
otters swimming after fish and then
trying to steal fish from each other
32 secs
page 17
otter rooting for fish along log in
pond
7 secs
page 18
otter pup chews a fish
15 secs
page 19
four otters in shallow pond all
catching and eating fish
50 secs
page 20
three otters near me, diving, and
catching and chewing fish
65secs
page 21
otter leaping out of water like a
porpoise, then joined by other otters
18 secs
page 22
six or seven otters bringing pond to a
boil as they forage
22 secs
page 23
otter toying with and eating a large
fish
56 secs
page 24
otter foraging through muddy shallows
of pond
123 secs
page 25
otter pup looks up at me, twitches,
then swims away
9 secs
page 26
mother finding pups and leading away
from rocky shore of pond where they were foraging
40 secs
page 27
five otters discovering me and leaving
a pond with a flourish
51 secs
page 28
mother loses track of and finds three
pups, diving to the rescue
68 secs
page 29
otter pup scating on beaver lodge and
going inside it
16 secs
page 30
otter fleeing grass, into pond and
snorting at me
30 secs
page 31
beaver swimming toward and slowly
chasing otter away from dam
55 secs
page 32
beaver in water attacking an otter on
ice shelf
57 secs
page 33
mother and pup playing and exhibiting
tail snaps
27 secs
page 33
two otter pups playing in a shallow
pond
28 secs
page 34
distance look at male and female otter
briefly fighting
31 secs
page 34
family of otters foraging in pond,
vexed by and thwarting a beaver
84 secs
page 35
otter brings fish out on the ice, eats
it and dives back into the pond
59 secs
page 36
two otters sliding in snow
77 secs
page 37
otter scatting on the snow of an iced
over pond at dawn
45 secs
page 38
an otter coming out of a hole in the
ice with a fish in its mouth
66 secs
page 39
otter popping up through hole in ice,
then on dam, then breaking ice after fish
46 secs
page 40
my wife and I trying to track otters
over snowy ridges
85 secs
page 41
two otters swimming in St. Lawrence
River to rocky shore of island
29 secs
page 42
four otters elegantly diving as they
fish in a pond
47 secs