What's this little creature in our local lake? Weasel or stoat?

[BuckyBarnesArm]

I couldn't see any white chest which both seem to have but he was swimming about catching minnows so his fur was soaked. Sorry these pics are so shit, he moved fast and I was ridiculously excited at seeing this little thing so industrious and giving not a jot I was so close by.

Any weasel/stoat experts? He had a long tail.

An otter maybe ?
Looks like an otter tail

But I can see tail is half submerged now so no idea but i would have been excited too

It looks like a mink.

yy mink

There doesn't seem to be any white on it, so I would also say mink rather than stoat or weasel.

It's too small to be an otter, I think (and the nose too pointy).

Definitely too small to be an otter (though it did cross my mind because of the body shape), he was tiny, plus this is a big city park not rural - would there be otters somewhere like that?

A stoat can be easil
Y told from a weasel
By the simple fact
That his tail is blacked
And his figure
Is slightly the bigger.

Can't see his tail, so not helpful on this occasion.😊

Mink. They shouldn’t be in this country at all but were released from fur farms. And absolute menace to wildlife.

A mink! wow really!? I can't fathom how it got into a lake in Leeds!

@BuckyBarnesArm

A mink! wow really!? I can't fathom how it got into a lake in Leeds!

A friend of mine who lives near Doncaster had a cat-mink fight in her garden this week. Cat won, but she had the impression the mink wasn’t healthy anyway. This suggests UK population is falling. Good job! www.mammal.org.uk/2018/10/decline-in-britains-invasive-mink-population-a-positive-development/

There are mink in the ponds near my house. They killed 5 cygnets a couple of months ago. Nasty bastards.

Looks just like the mink swimming in our local river this week which was catching fish.

@MadMadMadamMim

A stoat can be easil Y told from a weasel By the simple fact That his tail is blacked And his figure Is slightly the bigger.

Can't see his tail, so not helpful on this occasion.😊

A weasel is weaselly identified and a stoat is stoatally different.

@Gremlinsateit I only opened this thread to see if someone had said that .

Another vote for mink.

A stoat can be easilY
told from a weasel
By the simple fact
That his tail is blacked
And his figure
Is slightly the bigger.

Exactly what I came here to say! Except I was going to say ‘on the simple ground that his tail is round’