Strange encounter

[urbpan]

On our Boxing Day Urban Nature Walk, we walked downstream from Ward's Pond and paused briefly at Willow Pond. There we came across these weird furry lumps--aquatic plants growing on logs in the water? Drowned animals? But there are so many.


In fact, there were thirteen in all. Thirteen dead muskrats. I have to guess that they were all trapped in a normally safe denning site that became flooded with the recent heavy rains. Sad and weird.

Comments

[darkest-diary.livejournal.com]

Awe, poor babies.

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

That's...ominous.