La Mesilla otter sighting location visit/Jan 13, 2011

This is the location where Frances Wilmeth observed 3 otters in La Mesilla, on the Rio Grande,

on January 5. They were on an ice shelf on the far(west) side of the river, and then went into the river, cavorted, and swam upstream.

We found these probable otter tracks a little below the site on the east shore. They looked about a week old & had been frozen and thawed repeatedly. The knife is 3 1/4 inches long.