This is not something we want to see. The camera in the culvert recorded this animal three times on the same day. It is an American mink (Neovison vison), a non-native invasive species.
It is smaller than an otter and has a ferret-shaped face and pale ear margins. Notice how it swims fairly high in the water compared with an otter, and swims with a "doggy paddle" with its tail out of the water.
The American mink is universally unwelcome and is a menace to our native wildlife. These pictures are from a couple of weeks ago and it hasn't been seen since. I suspect it was passing through and moved on when it didn't detect the scent of a possible mate and perhaps because it did detect the scent of otters.
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