It has been know for some time that there are otters ‘about’ – there have been sightings of otters and their tracks down at Polwheveral creek, and otter spraint identified in the valley above Trewardreva. In late February a member of the woods management group was contacted by a local resident, reporting that she had seen a family of four otters in the woods. Approaching (from the Well Lane path) the stone footbridge by the wheelpit, she saw three otters on the far bank of the stream and a kit getting out of the water. In the moments she was securing her dog, they vanished, so no photographic evidence, sadly!