Thursday, January 27, 2011

Merry mustellids

Get a load of these otters all atwitter about the prospect of dinner:

I can understand that attitude.

6 comments:

Edith Ann said...

They are so cute. Squeaky, but cute!

Yeah, sometimes I, too, jump up and down while waiting for dinner.

Sugar Magnolia said...

That is beyond precious! I just love otters. Course you know me, a sucker for ANY animal (OK, except scorpions....)

I saw one at Landa Park once and was amazed at just how big they really are. Much bigger than I thought. I also read that beavers are quite large as well, although I have never seen one in real life (no this has nothing to do with the play coming to VC....)

Way I figger it, I can't die until I see an eagle soar in the wild, I see a beaver in its natural habitat, and as for the lions, cheetahs, tigers....well, I hope one day to see them too. Not in a zoo, but in their native environment.

The Loon said...

Su'g - I used to see beavers swimming along in the Devil's River down on the border, and saw many when I was a kid working up in the mountains in Colorado. They are big, and they are amazing engineers, build wonderful ponds to fish in. You should be able to see bald eagles around here. There used to be some lived near the lake at Coleto, and I saw one near Green Lake once. You usually see them in pairs. I have a friend who reported the eagles on Coleto Creek. He told me once he had just started dating a girl, and they were out driving in the country when a badger crossed the road. You seldom see badgers, and he got all excited; she was indifferent about it. He quickly dropped her, figuring a girl who couldn't get excited about seeing a badger just wasn't for him. True story.

The Loon said...

erratum: Sug

Sugar Magnolia said...

Your friend did the right thing, I suspect. I believe that gal had no soul.

I once got excited seeing a roadrunner darting across the road down here. And again, those things are bigger than you would think. I occasionally hear a woodpecker out here too, and I think even the sound they make is so cool.

Pity those that have no appreciation for the natural world...

Sugar Magnolia said...

You want another true story, totally unrelated, but keeping in the definition of soulless folk?

I once kicked a guy out of my house because, looking at a poster of Janis Joplin I had so proudly hanging in my living room, she with a rifle nearly as tall as her, he said in a VERY derogatory manner, "LOOKS like a Texas woman...". He was smirking while he said it. Oh, did I mention he was from Seattle? Yeah, he just didn't get it, and I knew he wouldn't get ME, so out he went. Never saw him again. Good riddance!