Actually, I don’t think I’m correct in calling “A visitor” as I think it’s actually living in my garden.
I saw it for the first time a couple of days ago. I think it’s a groundhog.
I’ve already learned a few things about it:
- It has very good hearing. The first time I saw it I rushed to get a camera. It was some distance away from the house, but when I opened the door to the garden it immediately disappeared. The second time I saw it (i.e. when I took these pictures) I decided to shoot through the glass door so as not to disturb it. Once again it was some distance from the house, but the sound of the shutter caused it to lift its head up and look around. This time it didn’t immediately run away.
- It’s a lot faster than I thought it would be. When it finally figured out what I was up to it took off “like a bat out of hell”.
Taken with a Nikon D800 and Nikon AF Nikkor70-300mm f4-5.6G