Log-pile Otter Holt.
Sunrise: 06.35 Sunset: 06.04
Mike Averill and I started a new otter holt project yesterday afternoon, at the junction of Hoo Brook and the River Stour.
Unlike the palatial otter stately home we built a quarter-mile downstream, this is to be a peasant’s dwelling in comparison.
Two and a half leisurely hours is all it took to erect the walls of this log-pile holt; another half day will see the roof on and the build finished.
Three months from now, this area will be covered in 7 to 8 feet high vegetation – mainly Himalayan balsam.
Three watercourses flow past this holt: the canal, the River Stour, and Hoo Brook. The straight grass line three-quarters of the way up the image, is the canal.
Log-pile Otter Holt.
Perhaps the otters will see it as their holiday home. It looks great, I hope it will get some residents.
I have no doubt that the holt will get residents; I hope one will be an otter.