Otter Pups learning to hunt

During the last few mornings, I am lucky to shoot the family of otters around the Marina Bay Reservior.

The adult Otters hunts and bite half of the prey before passing to the young pups. Seeing these co-operative behaviour is really a joy. The pups also learn how to grab the freshly killed prey and swim with it.

With my Nikon 300mmAF-D F4 and D90 DSLR, I am able to document the otters pups hunting behaviour with a better close-up view compared to my XT1 w 55-200mm. The Auto focus of the more than 20 years 300mm still shines and the 10 year old D90 still locks on 90% of the the time. I know mirrorless has come a long way since 2008 but the 2014 XT1 auto still pales against a 2008 D90 DSLR. It is a breeze to shoot with D90. Another advantage of DSLR- The battery for D90 can last like a 1000 shots compared to a 300shots for XT1 battery.