We've taken an awfully long hiatus here at Toronto Wildlife and feel free to make any and all hibernation jokes you can think of.Here though, to help usher in the approaching spring, is a spanking new image of a mink on the shores of Lake Ontario. I actually startled this mink's mate within a large jetty of rocks which turned out to be quite a stroke of luck. Because when this second one returned to find its mate it more or less swam right to me. Shortly after that both mink disappeared in the rocks and made a clean getaway.
Mink are tiny and cute and have soft fur I suppose but they're rumoured to be vicious. Birds will go nuts if they see a mink around. You probably shouldn't pet one no matter how cute they look.
