Otter Census:

Today Celine, Ashley and Tom joined Tom Kieckhefer on the otter cenus in the slough. We met Tom K at the North Harbor launch ramp in the late morning, and before departing into the slough he shared with us his sea otter collection. He had shells as examples of different prey items, an otter skull, a pelt and in the photo, Ashely is holding a 15lbs weight that illstrates how much food an adult otter consumes in one day!

The crew was up the slough for over 4 hours and the counted 69 otters for the day, and one sickly sea lion up at Kirby Park.