Shetland Otter Watching: Life in a holt for a Shetland Otter family

Saturday, 26 January 2013

Life in a holt for a Shetland Otter family

This is by far the most exciting and unique Otter project I have ever been part of. By building an artificial holt kitted out with a live video stream we have been extremely fortunate to enjoy a truly privileged insight into a wild otter family in Shetland http://www.shetlandnature.net/2013/01/25/shetlands-otters-underground-an-unseen-world/

Attached is a photo of the mother and cubs a few months ago from a more 'convenional' perspective.

Welcome to my otter watching blog

Watching and photographing otters in Shetland is undoubtedly one of my main passions in life, second only to my family. Since my first real memories of encounters with otters at eight years old, I have been studying Shetlands otters for almost thirty years now. I have enjoyed featuring on several TV documentaries to share my passion and local knowledge of otters here in The Shetland Isles. I hope that through this blog fellow otter lovers and naturalists can share encounters and images from the otters I study through out the year. For information on the otter tours, holidays and photography I run through my company Shetland Nature visit http://www.shetlandnature.net/otters/ I operate under a license issued by Scottish Natural Heritage, otters are protected by law under The Wildlife and Countryside Act.