Nice clear eyes Jens - great shot....bevellee

Great shot Jens! These animals are very quick and shy so you did a great job to get so sharp close-up portrait of a mink. In Finland minks are white in winter and all of them have escaped from "fur farms" ... or have been helped to escape by radical nature activists. Actually they are a nuisance since they they don?t live here naturally and kill a lot of birds.
Pekka.

Nice , I am impressed ...
These kind of animals we see only at the furfarms.
I understand what Pekka and Ole is saying but I prefer to see them in the wild like on this picture ...

regards,

thanks for liking the picture - despite it being a mink! ;-)

> In Finland minks are white in winter and all of them have escaped
> from "fur farms" ... or have been helped to escape by radical nature activists. Actually they
> are a nuisance since they they don?t live here naturally and kill a lot of birds.

I agree about the unnatural presence of the minks in our countries and all the bad things thy have caused. However, I the minks were established here by escape from fur farms long long before any groups of radical animal's rights activists were even thought of. It is these animal's rights activists who release the minks now and then - not "nature" activists like myself (now less radical than I once was).

Cheers, Jens.

Jens Birch wrote:
>However, I the minks were established here by escape from fur farms long
> long before any groups of radical animal's rights activists were even thought
> of. It is these animal's rights activists who release the minks now and then - not
> "nature" activists like myself (now less radical than I once was).

You are right Jens. I apologize for incorrect use or terminology.
What I ment was these "animal?s rights activists" as you correctly understood.
And speaking of damage and imbalance, minks hardly can compete with us, humans.
Pekka.