This month I’ve joined Jude’s photography challenge. The subject is wildlife in the garden, which is ‘right up my street’. The urban/wildlife interface here between mountain and sea is pretty active with a range of wildlife visitors – from the smallest of critters such as baby field mice to baboon, otter and porcupine … dassies, mongoose, genet.
Nature on the Edge 
Oh Liz, you’re the winner this week! 🙂 An otter in the garden, arrrrhhhh, we have to come one fine day. 🙂
Can I come too Dina?
Yes. The girls are looking forward to our excursion.:-) Now you get settled in your new home and please keep your fingers crossed for my move, then we’ll take a deeeeep breath and make wonderful plans.
What a lovely thought! 🙂
Oh yes!! Bring the bookfayries too, lots of bookish inspiration here. Tall tales around excellent waterholes, vineyards just across the valley, besides the locals are very engaging 🙂
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Sounds great, Liz, we’ll keep it in mind and get in touch.
What about visiting us in Norfolk?
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Must admit that you’ve piqued my curiosity. Love your gorgeous scenic pics, and of course the description of place – Norfolk’s up there on my wish list 🙂
Make a plan and head on over!
Well…an otter in the garden? How just great! Beautiful shot as well.
Yes, how lucky is that! And always a treat to be able to observe them – generally there is a family group, but the odd loner comes along too.
Great Picture indeed. In your garden.Dan
Yes, lucky to have such amazing creatures at the bottom of the garden. The property fronts onto the coastal area so we’re lucky to have the otters calling.
So sweet… that must be rare to have an otter that close to home?
I live quite close to the sea and a family group are quite often in the area. Yes, we lucky to sight them as generally they are shy.
What a sweet fuzzy face to find in the garden!
Lucky indeed :0
Oh, my, you have the most amazing wildlife in your garden! And your neighbourhood 😀
Yes!! And recently a new arrival – a caracal with kits. Now that’s exciting. The dassies are really skittish now, mongoose and genets also very wary.
He looks like he’s giving you an impish little grin. Are those his legs in front of him?
Cute right! He was curled up like a cat, tail neatly tucked right around and legs out of sight.
You found it in your garden? Speechless! Just speechless!
Yes… lucky to have such extraordinary visitors. They range the coastal area, and spend time on shore; also found inland near fresh water.
Beautiful photo of this animal.
Thanks Colline; happy with this one!
He LOOKS really cuddly, how amazing to have him so close to home!
Cuddly, and very much at home. At one point we had a swimming pool (since taken out) and the otters would leave their fish – as a kind of larder, and be back later to retrieve their snack.
Fabulous photo.
Yes, absolutely. Great shot, Liz!
Thanks – took a bit of patient leopard crawling to get the shot 🙂
she is so beautiful! very good your challenge!
Thanks Daisy, definitely one of the favourite visitors 🙂
I’d never even heard of the Cape clawless otter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_clawless_otter
Now I know more than I knew before.
It would be amazing to have an otter in the garden. Love that you relish in your blessings through photographs we get to enjoy as well.
Thanks Kim, it’s one of our highlights here – those otters are special visitors 🙂