This is an extra mini-post, that I had intended to be part of my last one. That last post was my 500th since I started in 2017, and in celebration I have a story to tell.
Last summer I bought a small folding aluminum stool, which I kept by my beaver pond. One day it disappeared. I searched the shore thoroughly, no sign of it. I was mystified: only the animals and I go there.
Two days before Christmas, the pond now thinly frozen except for the otter holes, about 8 feet out on the ice from where I’d last seen my stool, there it was:
The only explanation I can come up with is that the otters pulled it out of the pond onto the ice, either because the shiny blue metal looked like a fish, or just for fun.
As for how it got into the pond the first place…….
Eyes on the Wild 
Could you retrieve the stool, or is the ice too thin?
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V e r y i n t e r e s t i n g ! You need a trail cam… & a bungee cord!
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My game camera had a flat battery, so no photos!
And the ice was too thin for me to want to test it out. Then it thawed a bit, and refroze, and the stool froze solid into the new ice. Now it is also covered by snow! Maybe in the spring…
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Sweet!! And 500 posts!!!
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Congratulations on 500 – here’s me selfishly hoping for 500 more. On the subject of the disappearing stool, can you hook it with a grappling hook and drag it in? I wouldn’t even know where to get a grappling hook 😆 That is a great story!
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Oh those little cutie wicked otters, gotta love em!
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At one point, since I didn’t have a grappling iron handy, I tried using a very large fallen branch. No luck.
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