Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts

28 June 2010

The Gulf Coast Will Recover From This Oil Disaster

Unfortunately, it may not be in our lifetime. The wildlife and vegetation may be different. Present livelihoods may be lost but the Gulf of Mexico will recover. For the better? That remains to be seen.

Posted via email from Preposterouz by Iquitoz

06 July 2009

Mink and Otters

Until the other day, we had not seen any signs of mammal activity at the Watson Hollow pond. One morning we observed what looked like a mink swim out of the cattails and across the pond. That was exciting.


Mink running along the bank of the Watson Hollow pond. 2008

We have not seen any otters at Watson Hollow going on two summers. Watson Hollow was dredged about 18 months ago and that may have something to do with the change in wildlife activity here.


Approximately nine otters enjoying the waters of a Watson
Hollow pond one week after a fire blackened an adjoining field.
Interestingly, the otters' toilet area was not burned. 16 Aug 2007


Nature is not static and changes will always occur but it seems we tend to get upset when those changes happen during our lifetime.

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