\n Becca Field was heading to work on the morning of Thursday, November 13 when she caught sight of an unusual visitor to the waterways.\n<\/p>\n
\n She was walking by the River Biss behind the leisure centre when she glimpsed the amphibious mammal splashing about.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Field got a few snaps of it and shared them on social media, remarking that the creature made an interesting change to the urban scene.\n<\/p>\n
\n Becca said: \u201cI walk the same route every morning along the river and never pay too much attention but this morning as I passed I could see splashing in the distance. I originally thought it was just a rather large fish, as they\u2019re quite common.\n<\/p>\n
\n A Trowbridge resident has described their amazement an otter has been seen swimming in the river in a town centre spot. (Image: Becca Field)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAs I got closer I saw the face and then thought it was a beaver. It wasn\u2019t until I was right by it that I realised it was actually an otter! I remember saying out loud \u2018oh wow!\u2019 And stood watching whilst it swam around.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI knew that otters had been spotted in Warminster but was surprised they\u2019d ended up down here. I was amazed if I\u2019m honest. I\u2019ve seen them before but in zoo\u2019s, never in the wild.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s nice to see new wildlife, especially as most of the water around Trowbridge is heavily polluted with litter but this little otter seemed very content.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a rarity, I\u2019ve lived here my whole life and only encountered a very small handful of uncommon wildlife. But the otter definitely takes the top spot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Becca Field was heading to work on the morning of Thursday, November 13 when she caught sight of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-266122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}