Well it was side on to me so what did you expect ?! It reminded me of one of those chocolate bunnies.
I went and got my camera on the off chance that it wouldn't have anywhere better to go to and would therefore still be there when I returned. It wasn't.
I looked down the side of the house and there was the wabbit sitting in the back yard peering at a fallen lemon. I did my best Elmer Fudd impression and crept towards it, trying to look as if taking a photograph was the last thing on my mind. I tried not to make eye contact so it wouldn't see me !
Remember how we'd try that as kids and could never work out how mum or dad would see us when we couldn't see them ?! Grown-ups ! They had special powers !!
Anyway I got quite close and started snapping. With my backup photos taken just in case, I crept closer, one foot at a time.
There's another stupid statement. One foot at a time ! How else do we creep ? If I'd done two feet at a time I'd have been hopping !
Big ears didn't move an inch. He was happy to sit in a ray of sunshine and watch me watching him. Emboldened, I crept closer still. I took another photo. The shutter noise spooked him and he hopped a short distance away.
Don't you hate the stupid artificial shutter noises on shows like CSI, Bones, NCIS and the like ? Sounds like a gattling gun going off. I understand they're usually photographing dead bodies so don't need to be quiet but come on....that's just annoying special effects.
By now we were only a few yards apart (or metres if you're Johnny Foreigner) and after taking a few more photos of him posing in the setting sun, I got bored before he did and I came back inside.
Ok I realise this hasn't been the most exciting of posts and I could lie and say a gator suddenly appeared from nowhere and carried off the wabbit....but it didn't. So I won't.
Mind you there ARE gators here and there ARE wabbits here so...........
I've got National Geographic on speed dial !
5 comments:
I couldn't get anywhere near as close as you did, Ian. Paddy would be serving him up for dinner long before.:)
I taut I taw a puddy tat but it was just a wabbit....
I don't know who Elmer Fudd is. I have led a very sheltered life, I know. Mind you, it's just got a bit less sheltered because I watched "Pulp Fiction" this evening.
I like the photo though!
Ahhhh - - but I've googled Elmer Fudd now and realise that the reason that I didn't know is - - deep breath - - because I've - er - never seen Bugs Bunny! There seem to be some great gaping holes in my film knowledge and this is one of them.
Daphne!! You've never seen Bugs Bunny? Wow ..... ! So there are outposts of civilisation where strange things happen. I thought that was a myth!
Silverback - that's a great shot, and one no-one gets very often, bunny wabbits being notoriously spooky and all! Well crept!
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