A
Road Less Travelled
'A
French Letter'
Saint
Aubin de Pouancè
29th
May 2016
The
weekend weather has been glorious again. Very warm up to 26 Celsius
with a gentle breeze that is hardly rippling the surface of the lake.
In the evening I went for a walk around the lake. There are several
streams that flow in and out of the lake, each with a very
picturesque wooden bridge. The frogs were going absolutely frantic,
no not the French, I'm talking about the amphibians.
The
noise that the frogs were making, was very loud. It was getting
steadily darker and I was sat watching a heron making its last patrol
of the day round the lake. It was then that I heard a loud splash
which instantly caught my attention. I could make out in the
gathering gloom that there was a vee shaped wake heading directly
towards me. Keeping very still, while at the same time, turning off
the audible click mechanism on the camera. Then as it drew closer, I
could make out a darker shape in the water. When It was about 50 feet
away I could clearly see it was not a bird and it was to large for a
rat or a vole.
I
was rewarded with a few photographs of an adult Otter who was
patrolling the edge of the lake. It was weaving in and out of the
fishing platforms in the waters edge. It was about 10 feet away as it
passed me, it was only then that I noticed that I was holding my
breath. This is twice this year that we have observed Otters on
French waterways. Which compares with twice in 40 years of
unintentional observation of Otters on the English inland waterways.
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