I don't make a point of photographing kitty cats but I found this one as I was travelling country roads this evening, it was dripping with character and seemed to me to be as wild as wild can be. And it's eyes were captivating!
Those eyeballs
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Cute and wild looking as I spotted it in the wild grass beside the county gravel road (a farm cat probably hunting as it clearly didn't like the fact that I parked and took interest
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A few minutes later I interrupted a deer feeding at dusk, I spotted it and climbed out of my suv in faint hope that the deer would remain. I wandered around the bush and spotted it about 20 yards away. Here is the first shot. I know that deer feed near bushes in order to provide an escape route if something happens by that is unwanted. This deer was approximate to a very shallow bush when I took this shot.
Then it made it's first instinctive mistake, it took off into the field where no bushes existed. It appeared puzzled as to what to do next.
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Of course it reacted and took off immediately in any direction that was not close to me
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Then it wandered back and forth, not quite knowing what to do because no "forest" hiding place existed for it to vanish into.
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I noticed it's actions and was really pleased that the animal was showing me it's behavior so clearly. It wasn't really bugged because it's tail had not shown itself and it's protective grunt was not evident. I was like a mosquito, a bit bothersome but not a real threat.
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It paused once more, took another peek at me and my camera, more curious than bothered, which was nice.
Then, amazingly, it headed straight for me in a leaping deer gallop! I couldn't believe that it was heading straight for me. The I realized that it was doing so simply because the closest "tree" and "hide" for this animal was approximate to myself.
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And into the bushes it went! About 10 feet from me
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