The other morning I was looking out back at a pair of wood storks feeding in the rainwater-swelled swale that abuts the woods while a small green heron worked around it's edges, occasionally poking it's beak in the water after a minnow when suddenly a family of otters tumbled out of the woods and started frolicking and rough housing in the water. It spooked the birds but the otters put on a heckuva show.