During the gloppy snowstorms we were experiencing in early February, I chanced to look out at my feeding station, and suddenly saw the lithe, dark form of a mink appearing out of one of the tunnels the red squirrels have hollowed out of the snow. I could only surmise that this efficient predator was hunting these pesky rodents, as I watched his sleek, cylindrical shape quickly move away.
Mink are aquatic members of the weasel family, and this one was not too far away from the banks of the Bearcamp River, right across the road.
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