We are going to take a walk in the Otter Cliffs area of Acadia National Park this Friday morning at 10:00, before our big temperature drop arrives Friday night. We will meet at the Fabbri parking lot which can be accessed from either the Park Loop Rd via the Sand Beach entry gate., or Otter Cliff Rd. off of Rt. 3 (Otter Creek Rd.), south of the Tarn and Jackson Lab. A friend found lots of signs of otters near the aptly named cliffs on Tuesday. Maybe we’ll be lucky and see more. We’ll also see loons and other waterbirds down below on the ocean and hearty songbirds in the woods. Snow conditions should be good for tracking. Depending on the wind, we may do a loop around the point or stay in the shelter of the woods as much as possible. Join us if you can before we go subzero!

The photo shows the trail of an otter with a long slide and a series of bounds, where the whole body of the otter created depressions in the snow, on its way between Somes Harbor and the Mill Pond.