Posted on 09/01/2009 5:30:20 PM PDT by Steelfish
Fishy looking albino otter savours his breakfast in the Scottish sun
By JONATHAN BROCKLEBANK 02nd September 2009
The first time she spotted him, Karen Jack didn't have enough time to fish out her camera before he slipped off into the sea. But then, very obligingly, the rare albino otter came back and stayed for lunch.
Miss Jack managed to take this snap and a few others while the creature enjoyed his morning meal on the rocky coastline of Moray in north-east Scotland.
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A rare albino otter enjoys a fish meal in a photo snapped in Moray by an amateur wildlife photographer
She was extremely lucky - as sightings of albino otters in the wild are highly unusual. In Britain only one other live albino has been spotted in the wild in recent years and throughout the world hardly any reasonable pictures of the creatures exist.
Miss Jack said: 'I have been into photography for about three years as a hobby and love photographing wildlife, landscapes and my two cats. 'But it was just an amazing and surreal view of the albino otter, and for it to sit there and eat while we watched was mind blowing.'
Yesterday Grace Yoxon, of the Skye-based International Otter Survival Fund, said there were hardly any records of albino otters in the wild and they were almost never seen outside a museum.
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Kewl.
Stunning pics!
Otter will insist on Miranda rights.
Woot da hew...
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Very nice pic- thanks
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