I’ve currently run out of recent local pictures. So, until I’ve accumulated a few more, I’ve dug out some holiday snaps from a dozen or so years ago, not previously posted. They are from south western France. To start, low tide in the Garonne estuary at Bordeaux.
Skittering over the exposed mud, and eating chunks of stale baguette which were thrown to them, there used to be a colony of coypus, presumably descended from individuals which had hitched a ride on trans-Atlantic cargo ships in times gone by.
There was no sign of them in the same area last year.