Posted By: Bumblebee488
A lesson learned the hard way and a cool find while scouting the creeks. - 03/02/21 05:55 AM
Went up a popular creek this weekend on my Kayak, and less than 2 minutes in I see a swarm of mosquitos on the water (who thought they'd be out during this cold weather?) and one of them decided to land on my head and I instinctively swatted it away and in doing so knocked my brand new prescription glasses into the muddy water never to be seen again. Can't lie and say this is the first time that this has happened though , if yall wear glasses/ sunglasses remember to pick up a retainer before you get on the water. went home and picked up my old prescription then drove to another nearby creek and found this poor fellow sitting in the creek bed. Figured it was a river otter and texted the game warden and he confirmed it apparently, they are pretty elusive and not often spotted. GW said he probably froze. Surprised to find we had them this far northwest of the Gulf, but then again my former research assistant who I worked under told me that she used to work with turtles at her wildlife program out at A&M Commerce and one time one of the turtles they trapped had bites from a river otter on it also sorry for the blurry photos my phone must have been having a bad day.