Good shot of male Bullfinch this morning
http://andyburnsphotography.zenfolio.com/passerines/h151b6979#h151b6979
and also a Blackcap in full song
http://andyburnsphotography.zenfolio.com/passerines/h151b6979#hba4a8d
…..also the usual warblers heard but not seen and ………
….an Otter??? Lol spotted it as it swam from near the bridge across the west lake to the reed bed on the other side of the lake. It was big and very dark, perhaps a body two foot long and a tail half that size. It was swimming on the surface as we saw it but submerged quickly and then broke the surface with it’s nose every 30 foot or so. It vanished once it got into the reed bed. I have seen many otters in the wild and this looked like one. It was too big (both long and wide) for a mink. It was too quick to get a shot of it. Other than a escaped Croc, I can’t think what else it could be. Any ideas? We haven’t got Otters at Cozzy have we?
Glamorgan Bird Club 
Yes there are, we photographed one about a year ago by the bridge. There are supposed to be a pair, we have not seen them both together. Nice to know someone else had seen them.
Hi Andy. Otters have been seen at Cossie on and off for a few Yeats. The rangers actually built a man made Holt hidden somewhere in the conservation area behind W lake a couple of years ago, having found spraints. They have seen fish bones etc in the area of that.
Oops! ‘Yeats’=’years’ 🙂
Della, John,
thanks for that. Good to know I am not going mad …..just yet!