I found this Mink while out enjoying the fall colors yesterday. I was out prowling a river bank with a lens intended for scenic images, not wildlife, so when I saw this little guy swimming and prowling the bank of the Boise River, I had to run to my truck for my telephoto!!

I spent a couple hours (most of it looking for the little critter because he was so quiet, elusive and swam in the river like an otter) and was thoroughly enchanted by all the fall leaves falling around me, while getting the chance to photograph an animal I have only one other time even seen in the wild. The first time I ever saw a mink, the mink was gone in a flash and all I had to remember was a flash of brown disappearing into the river and that was almost a decade ago near Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho. And it was gone so fast I wasn't even sure what I had seen, but figured it likely to be a mink.

Yesterday, I had a much better opportunity and during some of these images he could hear my camera shutter and would look around trying to figure out where the strange clicking sound was coming from which gave me the time to capture the photos. Other than those brief moments, he was constantly on the move/hunt searching every last nook and cranny in the rocks along the shore, and then he would dive under the water and disappear for several minutes.

At one point I lost him only to look further upstream and saw him dancing along the rocks around a fisherman's feet and the fisherman had his cell phone out and was spinning in circles trying to capture a picture of the intrepid little visitor!

**Note - No Photoshop work was done with this image, the water is just as shot in camera.