Otter Feeding at Otters and Butterflies, Devon

The Otters Diet and Feeding

The staple diet of our native otter in the wild is fish (with eels being particularly favoured in the summer), frogs, small birds and eggs. Small mammals may also be eaten.

Otter feeding at Otters and Butterflies, Devon

Its not only the abundance of a particular food source that is important but also how easy it is to catch. Slow moving coarse fish are easier to catch than trout or salmon, but these may be taken from time to time, perhaps when they are spawning.

Otter feeding at Otters and Butterflies, Devon
The feed for our Otters being delivered