Not Good Camouflage Anymore

A few weeks ago I had a post, where a red squirrel was a bit hard to spot in the reds and yellows of all the fallen autumn leaves. This squirrel wasn't as lucky, in the white winter world of the Copenhagen park Søndermarken it was easy prey for my camera.

Camouflage

This red squirrel is perfectly camouflaged for autumn. Only it's movement betrayed it so that I could get this photo of it, before it vanished in the treetops.

Furball

I've moaned about how it can be difficult to photograph red squirrels, but at my Saturday walk through the nearby park two of the locals did give me more than plenty opportunity to get some nice shots of them.

The fastest squirrel in the zoo

This photo taken Sunday in the Copenhagen Zoo is testimony to yesterdays post about squirrels being hard to capture on film. Running like the proverbial Road-Runner through the okapi's enclosure I half-way anticipated it to go meek-meek. If I hadn't been in the process of photographing the more sedate okapis I wouldn't have been able to get this shot. Maybe it thought it was crossing in front of the tigers?

An elusive animal

One of the most difficult animals to photograph is, in my opinion, this one; the squirrel. Even though it's used to people it is very shy and very quick so to get good close-ups requires a lot of patience and a lot of luck. I'm still working on getting a really good one... This one was taken at Vestre Cemetery in Copenhagen where the squirrels enjoy the abundance of greenery and the relative quiet.