VIDEO: Otters in the River Welland captured on film
OTTER-WATCH is go after a young girl made a rare sighting of three of them frolicking on the ice of the River Welland in Harborough.
The otters were spotted by Cathryn Swales, who was on her way home from work experience at the town’s Ash Tree Veterinary Practice.
The Mail captured footage of them in the river near to the Northampton Road bridge.
Miss Swales, who spotted the otters at about 5.30pm on Tuesday, said: “I saw one swimming and catching a fish and then it came back and stood on the ice and then plopped back down into the river.
“I’ve seen an otter before but never in the Welland.”
They are not the first otters to hit the headlines in Harborough.
In August 2008 Susan Dilks caught an otter on camera in the back garden of her Gartree home.
And later that month Stuart James, of The Woodlands, Harborough, complained about an otter he believed was eating the fish from his pond.
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