otter

mossie

I work in an office on the Main St in Mallow. We have a small car park at the rear, and today at lunch time when one of my colleagues was going home she saw "a strange animal" in the car park. We checked it out on the security recordings and it was an otter. Now our car park is at least 400m from the river and to get there it would have had to cross the Main Street and Park Road, both of which are very busy. Looking at the video it then left by the laneway to the Main Street but we have no idea what happened thereafter.

Is it unusual to see an otter so far from water? Would it maybe be possible it came up through a drain or some such? I will try to get the video footage and post it here tomorrow.

dodderangler

Very possible that it's an otter and that far from the river
Not all otters will nest beside the river some will do it in forests couple of hundred meters from the river
there's family of them on the fodder and their best would be bout 100 meters away from the river in a small damp area of the forest you can see where they come down from the forest by a trail

Birdnuts

Young males will wander alot in search of new territory when the dominant male kicks them out of their natal area.

mossie

Thanks. It just seemed strange to see it in the middle of town with little or no cover in terms of natural cover at least.

Kess73

Have seen otters more than once in the Park road area in Mallow. Have seen them at night near the Tesco car park, and an odd time during the day.


There is a healthy population of them in the Blackwater, so no doubt you spotted one of them.

mossie

Kess73 wrote: »

Have seen otters more than once in the Park road area in Mallow. Have seen them at night near the Tesco car park, and an odd time during the day.


There is a healthy population of them in the Blackwater, so no doubt you spotted one of them.

Sounds like it. Didn't realise there were any that close to town.