"i was really just kiddin' cougars are fun."
There was one that had its lair in the crook of a tall black oak tree at the edge of a busy parking lot at Porter College in University of California, Santa Cruz. (And Everybody else didn't realize it lived right there!) It would only come in the middle of the night. I lengthened my camera's cable release by splicing in a couple hundred feet of stereo cable, then set the camera up late at night, right up next to it's treehouse lair. Then I waited in the nearest building, with the loooong cable release in hand, looking through binoculars.
I got a few shots that didn't turn out; but that's as good as I ever got of it.
Beautiful, amazing, wonderful animals.
--Mike
There was one that had its lair in the crook of a tall black oak tree at the edge of a busy parking lot at Porter College in University of California, Santa Cruz. (And Everybody else didn't realize it lived right there!) It would only come in the middle of the night. I lengthened my camera's cable release by splicing in a couple hundred feet of stereo cable, then set the camera up late at night, right up next to it's treehouse lair. Then I waited in the nearest building, with the loooong cable release in hand, looking through binoculars.
I got a few shots that didn't turn out; but that's as good as I ever got of it.
Beautiful, amazing, wonderful animals.
--Mike