Name:	laureleg -	Reply
Subject:	critter swimming across the slough
Date:	12/27/2013 10:08:44 AM

Last night at dusk a critter swam across our wide but very short slough . It was too dark to tell what it was even with binocculars. I looked on google and have a few ideas but it doesn't fit what we know. There is a hole dug in the bank near our sea wall. This past fall when we got near the hole it made a noise like growling. The critter swam with his/her head just above water but there was a wide wave path as it swam. Any ideas, going to call TC extension office this am.

Name:	Lugan -	Reply
Subject:	critter swimming across the slough
Date:	12/27/2013 10:09:50 PM

Well....take your pick.  On Martin I have seen Beavers, Muskrats, Otters, and suspicious swimming weirdos.  I have seen a number of deer.  There may also be aquatic birds....ducks, geese, loons, coots, and volkswagon-sized swans.

Name:	mckaygmc -	Reply
Subject:	critter swimming across the slough
Date:	12/30/2013 8:31:52 PM

Hole in the bank and the way you discribed how it swam I would say Muskrat.

Name:	alahusker -	Reply
Subject:	critter swimming across the slough
Date:	12/31/2013 7:49:24 PM

Muskrat,  little doubt.  Very destructive little devils if you have a boat in the water.  Love to eat electrical wires, any electronics and sank a friends I/O by eating thru the boot -- I shoot them.  (But only in season for the DNR guys out there.)