{"id":27584,"date":"2014-10-30T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=27584"},"modified":"2014-10-30T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:31:13","slug":"close-encounter-with-a-long-tailed-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/close-encounter-with-a-long-tailed-weasel\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounter With A Long-tailed Weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a brief but interesting encounter with a Long-tailed Weasel yesterday morning at Farmington Bay.\u00a0 The little mustelid ran across the road in front of my pickup and buried itself in the brush and rocks but on the long shot that it would reappear I stopped anyway.\u00a0 And reappear it did, right under my nose.<\/p>\n

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At first it was in the shade of my pickup but eventually I got off a few shots as it leaned against a rock in the sun\u00a0and checked me out.\u00a0 It was too close for my 500mm plus teleconverter and I didn’t have time to remove my tc.\u00a0\u00a0In the excitement I didn’t even think to grab my other camera with the attached 100-400mm zoom lens attached.\u00a0 I blame that on buck fever…<\/p>\n

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It gave me one more slightly different pose and then it was gone.<\/p>\n

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But I thought this earlier look at the weasel was interesting too, despite the fact that it was still in the shade of my pickup. \u00a0I enjoy the intimacy of this shot with the direct stare from those bulging eyes and the good look at\u00a0the very long and sensitive “whiskers”.<\/p>\n

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\nAn extreme crop of the same image reveals three things I thought were interesting:<\/p>\n