How Long Has He Been Under Now?

[canonloader]

http://www.freeassociationblog.com/potn/nov/muskrat1_filtered.jpg

[Packhorse-4]

:lol: That's pretty funny.

[Permagrin]

So funny...a furry water ballet! excellent!

[canonloader]

Thanks guys. This was pretty odd behaviour. They were lined up side by side with their noses in the water, sleeping. Every now and then, they'd dive in to get wet, then come back out and shake and sit in the sun. They did this pose for about 20 mintues, at one point, they were sleeping like this. :)

[Anthony J Howe]

Unique shot Mitch, don't come across images like this often. You were in the right place and the right time. Good behavioral shot, well done.

[nitefrogger]

Man, what a shot!! I've never seen them doing anything like that! Good catch :D

[dewmuw]

Great shot - needs a caption competition. ;)

[Cynthia in Alameda]

OK, for this city girl, what animal is it? :grin:

[pttenn]

That IS funny...:) You have a knack for coming up with great captions!
Karen

[canonloader]

Thanks everybody. :)

Cynthia, these are Muskrats. They generally build little cone shaped huts like a beaver does, but smaller. In this case, they apparently built right into the bank of the slough instead, since there are no reeds around to use for construction materials. They are veggies, but will eat crawfish, fish and I've seen them chasing the ducks around, but not sure they could catch one or do anything with it if they did. :)

[bigken462]

Oh come on now, they are doing the “train” or either been watching to much late night “R” movies on the animal planet.

Kenny

[Cameragirl58]

Wonderfully caught shot and an amusing one too :)

[iof]

That's a great shot! I'd never seen a muskrat conga line before.

[Billginthekeys]

great shot. funny title too. great stuff.

[urbandancer]

Very nice. they are so cute. Precise moment you got there.

[canonloader]

They are cute. I always enjoy seeing them. :)