I want to thank Elfyn and the Ceredigion Bird Blog for drawing my attention to the Otter at Leri. I have been hoping to get a good sighting of an otter in the UK all my life really but they always seem to be at Bosherston, Westfield Pill and other places when I am not. I saw a lovely Cape Clawless Otter on Llandudno beach once but that was Llandudno Cape Town! Anyway yesterday (Wednesday) I was driving up from Pembs to Bangor (lovely snow drifts in Ceredigion) so I took a chance and drove to the bridge described by Elfyn as best I could identify it on the map being a foreigner. I got there at dusk and to my great delight there was the otter fishing beneath and just upstream of the bridge. He caught an eel and climbed out onto the bank to consume it quite quickly and then he went back into the river to resume the game. Thank you, thank you thank you! I even managed to get a video of him so when I have mastered the techno bits and posted it on vimeo I will send the link
Best wishes
Rob Davies