The Fox and the Otter - Episode 44

Welcome back to the Fox and the Otter. I found a fox den and put a game camera up to see what would go on. In the first week, a fox routinely visited and did a little excavating. And in the following week, a family of river otters moved in and seemed to make it their own. In the weeks and months that followed, a lot has happened. Episode 44 takes place over the course of just 20 hours. We got a lot of snow. This little guy seems to be checking it out. He's going to have to be hunting rodents below the snow from this point forward. We're probably looking at eight inches of snow right now. You know, it's been weeks and weeks since we've seen the otters. All of the rivers in the area are frozen over. And so I'm not sure if we're going to see otters anytime soon, if they track over the snow, or exactly what they're doing this winter. Still not going in the den, though. It's nice that he spent this much time right in front of the camera. Usually we're always looking further away, so it's nice to see him up close. He's got a friend coming in. See how bushy his tail has become? Doing a little scent marking up there. That's a foxy little stretch there. I love the contrast here. That beautiful fox really stands out against the snow well. See the darkness on his tail? He's hoping to go in there. It is comforting that they have trails going by all of the den entrances. And so they're obviously still interested in the dens, but they just won't go in there. Little scent marking here. Obviously claiming this is my den hole, I guess. Well, I keep hoping they're going to move back in here. We'll see a lot more of them.