Wild animals never cease to amaze me, and this red tailed fox was no different.
He was very very aware that I was there, even though there was a huge field, probably about a quarter of a mile distance between the 2 of us. He was closer to begin with but rapidly put more distance between us.
I noticed him when I got out of the car after noticing an osprey come out of the woods, fly over to the field on the other side of the road and then take off. I was trying to shoot from the car and that just wasn't working, so I looked to my right where the Osprey had flown off, and saw a brown lump in the middle of the grass just outside the woods, I focused my camera and was able to get one shot of him (not great) of him scratching an itch, and then he took off to the other side of the field. I had enough time to figure out it was an animal and not a mound of dirt, as they've been working in the fields. I was shooting over a hill and that wasn't helping me
Every few steps he would stop and look around, but he never really looked back towards me.
It was like he had my scent and he was making sure that he was going in the opposite direction.
I kept working to get a fairly decent shot, hoping he would stop and turn and look at me, but that never happened, he would look to the front, left and right, but never behind him. He finally turned a bit so I could get him at sort of an angle. But everything about him, you could tell that he was sizing up his situation and checking his surroundings.
I will be going back in hopes to see him again.
Until Next time
God Bless
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