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Photo Gallery => The Gallery => Topic started by: gazza1960 on July 28, 2012, 06:36:19
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Having a quick fishing dabble at a weir pool near my home I was told by another angler that a family of mink had been using the tow path as a means of feeding them selves on thrown sarnies and leftover bait.
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t22/skatenchips/SheppertonWier015.jpg)
Shepperton Weir where fishermen and kayaks share its turbulent water for a past time,but now the mink use it as a dining area.
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t22/skatenchips/SheppertonWier001.jpg)
anyway,im sat there about 10pm and this one scuttles along the bank bold as brass,I stand up and it jumps in the river.
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t22/skatenchips/SheppertonWier002.jpg)
It dissappears across the river.
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t22/skatenchips/SheppertonWier004.jpg)
after dark an angler up the bank shouts ""Here they come""!!!
and sure enough a family of 5 Mink red eyes gleaming in my headlight come behind my chair and hurried along the towpath squeeking as they went,I got 4 of them as they went away....soz a bit blurred.
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t22/skatenchips/SheppertonWier006.jpg)
This baby one got a tad lost and I got a close up of him while he decided where to go.
a real one off experience but having come home I did ring the London Wildlife centre to report it as although they are cute they are also savage killers of water voles and all things waterfowl....so I think I did the right thing.
(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t22/skatenchips/SheppertonWier013.jpg).........Oh the fishing ,well I had 7 Bream to 7lb 2oz.
Gazza
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They're horrible things, and you're right about the water voles. The good thing is that otters are making a comeback, and they eat mink. Water voles have been able to make a bit of a comeback in many areas.
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I saw one of these last Saturday whilst going to the pub with hubby, it was very black and I did wonder what it could be, I thought mnk were brown. It scuttled over the road from the river into a now defunct strawberry field