Muskrat Love
Muskrat, Muskrat
Candlelight
Doin’ the town and doin’ it right
In the evening
It’s pretty pleasing
Muskrat Suzie
Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug at a Muskrat Land
And they shimmy
Sam is so skinny
And they whirl
And they twirl and they tango
Singing and jingling a jangle
Float like the heavens above
Looks like Muskrat Love
Nibbling on bacon
Chewing on cheese
Sam says to Suzie
Honey, would you please be my Mrs
Suzie says yes with her kisses
Now, he’s tickling her fancy
Rubbing her toes
Muzzle to muzzle
Now anything goes as they wriggle
Sue starts to giggle
And they whirled
And they twirled and they tango
Singing and jingling a jangle
Floating like the heavens above
Looks like Muskrat Love
– written by Willis Alan Ramsey
– peaking #4 on the Hot 100 Chart in 1976 by Captain & Tennille
Listen to the song here…..
(Photos taken across a canal at Blackwater NWR, Cambridge, MD
wish they were better quality and not cropped so heavily!)
Muskrats are not always easy to find, so seeing the photos you captured of the muskrat tango is really fun, Donna. Liked the appropriately matched song by the Captain and Tennille, too. Fun post, and great find.
Thank you Jet! Always fun to throw in an amusing post, I truly could not get the song out of my mind after watching this pair mate. Wildlife is pretty awesome!
I remember that song! Your photos are worth many more words than the lyrics. They are a hot couple if you ask me… Good work Donna! 🙂
Thanks HJ! Yes, they were quite busy busy!! 🙂
Fantastic series!
I saw one swimming really fast to reeds on Saturday morning, but I wasn’t fast enough to get a shot. I waited for a long time hoping it would come out and be seen again. Alas it did not. 😦 It was the first time I’d seen one in real life too.
Thanks Deborah! We have a lot of them around the Chesapeake Bay but my first time seeing them mate. Actually, hubby spotted them first, just after we saw turtles “doing it”. Spring and love sure is in the air!
It sure is! I’ve seen ducks mating this Spring.
The Muskrats though…pretty neat!
Terrific photos! I see some here every so often and enjoy seeing them, but they are very wild.
Thanks Terry! They are fun to watch if they don’t know you’re watching.
Priceless! I rarely if ever see one and you had two!! Beautiful photos, Donna. It is hard to think of muskrats without that song in mind. 🙂
Thanks Lisa! I went to bed thinking hearing that song, lol. 🙂
Wonderful captures, Donna, and the song is perfect. Hoping not to be humming it in my sleep!
I’m still hearing the song this morning lol. Glad no one (yet!) thought the photos were ‘too graphic’. 🙂
Not at all too graphic–quite a privilege to witness nature happening!
Interesting Donna, have not seen muskrats, they look like beavers.
They do look like beavers, until you see the tail. Big ole rat tail. lol 🙂
What an amazing capture! Was this from your new location in Cambridge? We have had muskrats in our cove for as long as we have lived here (20 years), but I have never seen more than one at a time swimming – or skimming – along the surface from one end of the cove to the other. Sometimes I would wonder if we had a ‘polygamist’ going back and forth between two different homes!
I re-read and saw that this was a Blackwater. Even though cropped it is still a wonderful capture! And now like your other followers, I have that song in my head. Do you remember when they performed this song at the White House 0 can’t remember who was president – but the Washington Post made a big deal out of it.
I’m only 11 miles to Blackwater now. 🙂 Yes, heavily cropped but I thought they were worth sharing. No I don’t, I’ll have to google!
Thanks Susan, I see your other comment! 🙂 ‘Polygamist’ muskrat, I busted a laugh!
I am glad that you had such a good Muskrat ramble.
Thanks Tom! 🙂
i love it!
Glad you enjoyed it, Jane! 🙂
Marvelous! I’ve never seen a muskrat, much less a pair mating. Spring for sure is in the air… with any luck you’ll come upon the wee ones maybe?
Thanks Gunta! They tango’d right in front of their underwater den, so now that I know where the den is, I will return to look for babies. Gestation is 28 days so sometime in June maybe?
Wow! Looking forward to it!
Beautiful
Thank you!
A terrific series of photos!
Thank you Jerry!
What a fun post, Donna! Loved the verses timed with the pics 🙂
Thank you Helen! 🙂
Your photos perfectly reflect the words in the poem, Donna. Well done!
Thank you Tanja! 🙂
Amazing series, Donna! Only you could capture these unique shots.
Awwwww…..thank you so much, Hien! 🙂