Success for the Otter Video Monitoring Project!
For the first time, a wild otter has been caught on camera in Cheshire
The Otter Video Monitoring Project aims to uncover more information about otters in Cheshire. It is funded by the Environment Agency, Chester Zoo and the Sandstone Ridge ECO-net Partnership (SREP).
The project has already found a number of new potential natural resting sites (known as holts), as well as spraints (droppings) and footprints of otters.
Now we have even greater success, with film footage of a live otter. The film was taken by an automatic camera on the River Gowy during May. The animal, an adult otter, appears very interested in our camera equipment.
Otters are exceedingly rare in Cheshire, and very difficult to observe, so this really is reason to celebrate.
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