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Otter with flatfish

A memorable close-range encounter with a European Otter (Lutra lutra) feeding upon a freshly captured flatfish (probably a Flounder, Platichthys fletus). Having spotted the otter swimming to shore, I patiently stalked its likely position across the slippery seaweed-strewn rocks. I was overjoyed to pop my head up from behind a rock to see the otter just a few metres away and was even happier to spend the next twenty four minutes in its company.

Location: Loch Sunart, Morvern, Ardnamurchan, Lochaber, Scotland, United Kingdom

Photographer: Jason Gilchrist

Otter with flatfish

A memorable close-range encounter with a European Otter (Lutra lutra) feeding upon a freshly captured flatfish (probably a Flounder, Platichthys fletus). Having spotted the otter swimming to shore, I patiently stalked its likely position across the slippery seaweed-strewn rocks. I was overjoyed to pop my head up from behind a rock to see the otter just a few metres away and was even happier to spend the next twenty four minutes in its company.

Location: Loch Sunart, Morvern, Ardnamurchan, Lochaber, Scotland, United Kingdom

Photographer: Jason Gilchrist