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.