Embsay watched the strange black and white bird dipping and out of the water with rapt attention, his red eyes following every bob of movement and flick of wings. The water beaded in diamond drops across its feathers and those feathers! The white was white, but the black was blue, green, silver and grey all at once. Iridescence was a completely new phenomenon to him and was enthralled. He looked down at his paw, dark against the snow, his own fur was black, mostly, with speckles of red orange common to his family, but it was just the colours it was, no shots of colour shimmered through it. He felt so plain and drab by comparison. He look at the bird again, perhaps it would share? 

Padding closer, ever careful to make as small marks as possible in the snow, though he had to admit it was a little difficult to go anywhere unless you did, he crunched onto the shingle bank of the stream, hoping he wasn't about the startle the beautiful creature. "Hello?" He said brightly to the bird, large puppy ears perked and tail wagging slowly. Then a moments quiet contemplation, where he considered if birds spoke the same language as he did, the bird had been making some odd croaking noises, was that the language he spoke? He should try and speak it too! "Errr...Eeeerrllo?" He tried instead. "Cooooud Iee haarve aerr feeeadder?" Could I have a feather? "Puwaze?" Please?

Of course he could have attempted to take the feathers by force, he was technically the apex predator here, if only a small one, but the thought never even occured it him.