Close Encounter of the Mammal Kind

Spring is spluttering along, not quite sure whether it is for real yet. Certainly temperatures are nothing to write home about.

Last weekend we spent on Scotland's west coast at a B&B. We didn't choose it randomly - we knew there were chances of things happening.  Looking out the window I spotted an Otter eating a fish so I gathered my kit together and raced to where it was. I secured a number of pleasing pictures before the fish was finished. It then proceeded to amble closer whereupon it drank in a rainwater pool before returning to the water and disappearing. For a wildlife photographer I was in heaven. Close encounters with Otter are difficult and we have spent quite a few hours in fruitless attempts in the past. It was also extremely gratifying that the subject never knew I was there and was the one that left first.