mink

he was catching salmon

A mink is peeking out of his temporary hidey-hole in the dyke. He's further back than it appears and the shape of the sky that he sees is reflected in his eye. I soon left, as did he.

me!!!!!. As you can see from the shallow DOF,i'm very close here,almost at the 3,5m limit of the lens. I anticipated where he would go and i was ready and waiting when he came round the bend.

Snapped this Mink that had just walked accross the ice on the frozen dam and hid under one of the fishing stages. Nice but naughty!

Mink, fishing on the shore.

When I am lucky, I met one or two minks by year. Last sunday I saw this one getting out of a brook icy water. At first I tought it was a muskrat so I was a little late to take a decent picture of it.

Nothing to tell, just cute and curious.

....I think! Or is it the Pennington Flash monster? It caused quite a commotion amongst the wildfowl!

Late evening

I took this picture back in the summer while taking a walk along the river hamble.

Four of these were playing around in the evening

This Mink tried to ambush some Dippers,unsuccessfully i might add.

Although I could'nt resist taking pic's of them, I would have been happier if there were none there.

It seemed oblivious to my presence. I love the white chin. This is my first mink sighting! A number of song sparrows alerted me to the mink's presence. The mink caught a mouse while I was watching; unfortunately I missed that shot.

Shot from another angle when the merganser is caught by the mink

A Male Hooded Merganser fallen prey to a Mink

A mink in a typical habitat. Really a menace to coastal bird populations.

It was very cold weather, about -20 C, and my friend called me to see mink in the river. I waited about 20 min before it came this place.

This little chap did me a favour.He popped out from the river bank as I was taking shots of the KF.He looked quite shocked to see the KF looking at him and then he saw me pointing a cam over the wall,whereupon he beat a hasty retreat into the river.The KF was quite calm.He just watched the mink...

One of our resident Mink.there are a pair breeding in the rocks under the bridge and higher up the river I spotted some youngsters when I was watching the Kingfisher.This pair are very bold.They come out and about and all hours of the day.I think this may be the male.He catches crabs and drags...