Caught him clearly there. He was in and out of the rocks and I have many photos that I believe should show the mink, but I'm challenged to find him — for example:
Side issue: Mink or otter? Do you know the difference? I know a difference — pointy vs. round snout — and that's what made me say mink.
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Snout, paws and fur. All say mink over otter. I've never seen either of them in the wild, so I'm envious. Cool photo.
I woke up. It was a minky morning, and the first thing that I saw ...
Little mink seems to be enjoying the day, seeking prey among the rocks.
I live in a suburb that has some green spaces between housing divisions and I see quite a bit of wildlife, a family of four weasels or ferrets, a small herd of deer, a couple of egrets, a pair of red tailed hawks, and even foxes, though the last one was found dead on a neighbors lawn. I think it may have eaten something that had eaten rat poison. And rabbits, of course.
I think the potential species confusion is more between mink and three different species of weasels - short-tailed, long-tailed, and least. Then there's also the marten.
@Rollo: And that's how Minky Clinton got her name. (do you have a rheuuum for my minky?)
Forget it, Althouse. He’s too small to turn into a coat.
Look for the paint some lefty idiot may’ve thrown on the mink’s coat… always a tell.
I’d sooner think that it was a difference in the tails- but the snout makes sense.
Per wikipedia:
Adults may eat young mink
Yet, You little Mink is a compliment.
Think Mink!
Think Mink when you shop for winter clothes
Think Mink!
Think Mink when you want that quelque chose
i see otters All the time, nearly as often as i see bald eagles (they're Both trout killers)
Otters are sleek, and pretty big
(also, otters usually have trouts in their mouths)
i don't if i've ever seen a mink (seen lots of martins and other weasels)
I'm told mink are meaner than snakes.
I wish I could find the reference, but years ago some environmental group went to a mink farm in Oregon, and opened the cages. Soon thereafter, the ground was covered in dead mink. They didn't run away.
They started fighting, and killing each other.
I've seen a lot of otters. That's not an otter.
I've also seen mink/weasels running among lakeshore boulders as in the picture. That's what that animal is.
"show the mink"
That's got to be a euphemism for something.
Perhaps it's a rare Seeing Eye Minkey......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnlIWpZSPXU
I love the smell of minkmusk in the morning.
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