Keeping an eye out

A vole buries its nose into the riverbank snow

Mink

As curious of me as I was of it, a mink standing on the spring ice in the wetlands

The raid

A muskrat watches helplessly as a mink raids their nest. The mink returned to clean the nest out. Sturgeon River, St Albert.

The snatch

A mink runs off with a muskrat kit it has snatched from the riverbank nest...one family feeding another

Focus

A mink races along the bank of the Sturgeon River on its mission to clean out a muskrat nest of kits. St Albert.

Stealth

A mink dives into a muskrat net to extract the remaining kit, completely ignoring the presence of the parent adults. Sturgeon River, St Albert.

Final round

The last kit from a muskrat nest is snatched away by a mink with the helpless adults looking on. Sturgeon River, St Albert.