Doing My Thing

fossis · Feb 9, 2012

Walking in The Woods, I saw two beautiful otters feeding up one creek, but just saw them as they were leaving, one stopped & looked back at me, but too late for a pic. $:-\$
Had a nice relaxing walk.

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packerbacker · Feb 9, 2012

Nice pics! Where's the signature rifle?

ronwoodcraft · Feb 9, 2012

Another neat post Fossis,

Too bad you didn't get a picture of the otters. I got a blurred picture of three otters a few years ago. They came shooting past me going downstream in a fast moving stream. I lost the picture when my last computer crashed. Pic was no good anyway.

fossis · Feb 9, 2012

packerbacker said:
Nice pics! Where's the signature rifle?

Thanks, I actually didn't have it this time, i was close to the main road, so felt safer. :P

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fossis · Feb 9, 2012

ronwoodcraft said:
Another neat post Fossis,

Too bad you didn't get a picture of the otters. I got a blurred picture of three otters a few years ago. They came shooting past me going downstream in a fast moving stream. I lost the picture when my last computer crashed. Pic was no good anyway.

Yeah too bad, I was looking in the rocks & gravel for arrowheads or herkimers, & didn't see them in time.
A few years ago I watched two otters feeding, they take turns diving, then bring their fish out on a log to eat it.

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old digger · Feb 9, 2012

Look like a quiet area to get away from the "rat race". You could sit quietly a little ways away from the stream and maybe those otters just might come your way. They are always moving about looking for food or to play. Nice pictures. Are these woods private property or public? Old digger.

mamabear · Feb 9, 2012

I always thought herkimers were from NY? are herkimers just double pointed rock crystals? for some reason I thought they were a different mineral comp

fossis · Feb 10, 2012

old digger said:
Look like a quiet area to get away from the "rat race". You could sit quietly a little ways away from the stream and maybe those otters just might come your way. They are always moving about looking for food or to play. Nice pictures. Are these woods private property or public? Old digger.

Thanks, the Ouachita National Forest has 1.8 million acres of land, used for timber, wildlife management, & recreation, there are 223 miles of hiking trails, some mountain biking in some areas, atv camp at (Wolf Pen Gap) SE of Mena Ar.
80 % of the forest land is in Ar, the other 20 % in Ok.
There are horseback riding trails at Cedar lake in Leflore co Ok, wildlife management areas in several places.
Then there are thousands more acres of Corp of Engineer land, that has old house places, (foundations & wells), but no detecting allowed on either place, but a great place to hike, hunt, take pic's, & just relax, & all just about 30 minutes away from my house.

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fossis · Feb 10, 2012

mamabear said:
I always thought herkimers were from NY? are herkimers just double pointed rock crystals? for some reason I thought they were a different mineral comp

They are named for the Herkimers in N.Y., & yes, they are just double pointed crystals, we have some 'tabular', in Ok that are flat, & some have water in air bubbles that move around inside.
Just north of where we dug at Hot Springs, we found around 300 one time, some a half inch long.

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mamabear · Feb 10, 2012

I think "just" was the wrong word for me to use. if I find a double terminated u can hear me hooting in the next state. I've only found 3 in 10 yrs of digging. 300??!! that's amazing & awesome. it would be interesting to do a test on the wter inside the crystal to see what is in it. I wonder if there is any way to determine age from the water. gosh you've got my mind going now. but I would never be able to destroy such a treasure to see the chemical make up of it.
as always your pix are wonderful. thanx Fossis

fossis · Feb 10, 2012

mamabear said:
I think "just" was the wrong word for me to use. if I find a double terminated u can hear me hooting in the next state. I've only found 3 in 10 yrs of digging. 300??!! that's amazing & awesome. it would be interesting to do a test on the wter inside the crystal to see what is in it. I wonder if there is any way to determine age from the water. gosh you've got my mind going now. but I would never be able to destroy such a treasure to see the chemical make up of it.
as always your pix are wonderful. thanx Fossis

My friend's Son was with a college field trip near Jessieville when they found the Herkimers, people had just discarded them while digging for crystals, they even left pieces of carpet for us to kneel on while sifting the ground. :laughing7:

I had a water crystal stored in a barn, & when I brought it into the house & held it up to the light to see the water move, a drop fell on my face, one section had cracked open from freezing, but I still have one bubble. :icon_scratch:

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Produce Guy · Feb 10, 2012

I didn't know you guys had Otters up in Oklahoma :icon_scratch:

fossis · Feb 10, 2012

Produce Guy said:
I didn't know you guys had Otters up in Oklahoma

Yeah, the population has really increased since they started 'reintroducing them' a few years ago, now we see them quite often.

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rginn · Feb 13, 2012

You just answered my question, Fossis. Otters are native to Oklahoma, but they were just about trapped out of existence. I had heard about a reintroduction program, but nothin else. Sounds like it worked, which is cool. Camped at Cedar Lake in 68 with my grandparents.

mamabear · Feb 13, 2012

re-introduced them to MO also & now we have a thriving population. the also re-intro'd elk last yr, but I saw one a yr before that. elk are not hard to distinguish from deer. farmers don't like it, but I do. there has to be a balance.

fossis · Feb 13, 2012

RGINN said:
You just answered my question, Fossis. Otters are native to Oklahoma, but they were just about trapped out of existence. I had heard about a reintroduction program, but nothin else. Sounds like it worked, which is cool. Camped at Cedar Lake in 68 with my grandparents.

A lot of the fishermen want to shoot all they see, because they eat so many fish, but they are part of the wildlife balance, so I don't bother them.
Maybe if they 'cleaned out my pond' of fish, I might not be so tolerant. :P

fossis · Feb 13, 2012

mamabear said:
re-introduced them to MO also & now we have a thriving population. the also re-intro'd elk last yr, but I saw one a yr before that. elk are not hard to distinguish from deer. farmers don't like it, but I do. there has to be a balance.

They tried to introduce Elk here in Eastern Ok, but poachers cleaned them out very quick, but up in the Ozarks in Ar, they are doing quite well.
They were 'native' to Eastern Ok & Ar, but the early settlers killed them all off, including the 'woodland buffalo', the last buffalo in Ar were killed by 'caguns' from La, in the Southern part of the state.

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