A vole

Maestro

Well, while trying to take pictures of the hummingbirds (I had four buzzing around outside yesterday), my cat brought me a present, an unharmed vole that it was "playing with." I'm such a softy I took the vole and made sure it was fine before deciding to use it as a model since the hummingbirds were not cooperating and the light was poor. So I slapped on my macro lens, stopped all the down to F20 for some deep DOF and took a few pics.





I then released the vole way out in the cow pasture behind my home away from my garden.

IraRunyan

Beautiful set of photos! Job well done..........

Docdpp

Cool...lucky for the vole you needed a modle.

Maestro

IraRunyan wrote:

Beautiful set of photos! Job well done..........

Thanks Ira.

Cato

Great shots - makes for a good opportunity to study the little critter.

Wonderful to have a cat who thinks so highly of you to bring you a gift!

summerz

AWE The little guy had quite the busy day.:D

Ric Grupe

Boy am I glag It is "a vole" and not a typo!

Very good detail.

Harryb

Nice captures

Giphsub

Very cute little fella. How big are they Stephen? I've never heard of them before.

Maestro

Docdpp wrote:

Cool...lucky for the vole you needed a modle.

Yes, but I have such a soft spot for animals that I can not even bring myself to kill it even though it eats my flowers in the garden. I just can't do it to any animal. I mean I am the one that is probably invading its territory.

Maestro

Cato wrote:

Great shots - makes for a good opportunity to study the little critter.

Wonderful to have a cat who thinks so highly of you to bring you a gift!

I'm not too sure what the cat thinks. They are pretty arrogant little creatures. It was a cool little guy to study. It's back legs are bigger than than the front. You can see how it is built to really push that dirt behind it as it digs.

Maestro

summerz wrote:

AWE The little guy had quite the busy day.:D

Oh yes, I bet I probably traumatized the thing more than the cat.