Otis Fishing Report for November 4, 2023: Having just returned from a lil meander ourselves, we pop in to check chat’s chitter chatter, and whadya know?! We have a two-tagger waiting — thanks be to fromaway and BearWatcher for the tags — and it turns out Otis and I were engaged in Synchronized Meandering!
But let’s back up just a sec here and see what all the excitement is about, yeah? Riffles cam gets a rewind and review at the 10:38 a.m. Katmai mark, and we see a bear that, honestly, may or may not be Otis. Location? Check. Gait? Check. Shape? Uhhh… Kinda hard to tell. Coloring? Maybe; maybe not so much. Markings? Ummm… even our now-always-nearby handy-dandy magnifying glass doesn’t help much.
We flip over to Brooks cam for a little rewind and review, and we’re 99.9 percent sure, but, gosh… let’s view that again. And on the third view, we realize that we’re looking at the wrong parts of our boy. 😉 Uhhh… mmmm…. Okay, yes! That’s the right dangle of his jangle — calling it: OTIS! — as seen here in this GIF captured by MOGU MOGU. 😀
CamOps follow him to the Platform side path, and he pauses here in about the middle of this snap. Oh, you don’t see him either? Right there. You know… where we can’t see a darned thing, behind the branches. Covert Fishing, he is.
But wait — we said “fishing”? Did that word catch your eye? Well, yes, we did! Next to our trusty magnifying glass, we’ve placed a stopwatch in our Otis Toolbox. 😉 And according to said stopwatch, Otis presented with dining body language in this very spot for 2 minutes and 28 seconds before cams panned away. We’re not brazen enough as to call it a FISH, but we are confident enough to call it a DOA. 😀
And that was the last we saw of Otis and his Plump Rump today. Official count for November 4 is 1 DOA + a 3-Minute Otis “Meander By”.
Until tomorrow, cams and sun willing, we’re sending Wishes for Fishes and crossing our fingers for continued sunshine to sooth the savage solar panel! ♥ (As the snow begins to fall… cross your paws, folks!)
Bonus Content:
Check out JMcNature‘s YouTube video of Olympic Otis sprinting November 2… to the sounds of Chariots of Fire! (We’re still laughing at how perfect this is!!)
Bear cam images in this post are copyright National Park Service and/or Explore.org
Geeze, even in Slow motion, Otis is fast…he covered a LOT of ground in no time at all.
He is!! Those are some long strides!