Otter were high on our hit list on this our first visit to Skye and we put in around twelve hours of our precious time to gain a couple of encounters with this elusive mammal feeding along the shoreline of a loch at the southeast end of the island.
We were four to five hours in before our first encounter but it was well worth waiting for as we watched this female Otter feed on crabs and flatfish for half an hour until she suddenly just vanished like only Otter can.
With careful field skill learnt from our first encounter and a bit of luck on our second visit we eventually got within ten metres of the above female Otter that was concentrating on filling her face with a juicy flatfish.
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