When I was growing up in the 1950’s, my mother had a mink fur wrap that, while stylish at the time, was also horrifying. It was made up of three mink bodies, with dangling feet, tails, and heads, and the mouth of one functioned as a clamp to close the wrap. It creeped me out. At that time, it didn’t occur to me that mink was an American species but it is native to much of North America, including Northern California. I’d heard there were minks at Ferrari Pond here in Lincoln Hills, and finally the other day, I saw one bounding along the trail and into the pond but did not manage to get any photographs. And, since day before yesterday, a dead Canada Goose, seemingly moored in the shallow waters of the pond just below the surface off one of the golf cart bridges, has been attracting the attention of mink in the vicinity. They are predatory, aquatic mammals adept at swimming and diving and they are carnivores. They dive for fish and frogs, hunt rodents, attack birds, and consume carrion like the goose. The goose seems to be providing at least two minks with sustenance. The first three images are of one individual and the last is a second individual who showed up after the first disappeared. When they swim, their bodies move like cigarette boats. The two minks worked the goose over, diving beneath the carcass to find some flesh, never really flipping it over. Both looked up at me on the bridge, one swimming with a mouthful of flesh, the other about to dive under the carcass.