My goal today was to photograph the new fawns which have been born over the last few weeks at Shenandoah National Park. However, I didn’t see any. Instead I saw a few things that were unexpected, like the guy above strapped to a large fan, gliding over the park. But most unexpected was my first ever sighting of a Bobcat in the wild. Did I get a photograph?…well, uh, no. I managed to grab my camera, get the Bobcat in the viewfinder as it moved through the woods and press the shutter release only to discover that my camera was set to an aperture of f/22 and the exposure in the shade of the woods took 3 secs. By the time the shutter had closed, the Bobcat was probably at home watching TV. Rats…but it was still very cool to see one of these.
I spent a lot of time in the Big Meadows area looking for the fawns and ending up photographing other items of interest, butterflies, flowers and the grass above underneath a web covered in dew drops. Even though I didn’t find any fawns, there were plenty of deer in the meadow and plenty of people to spook them.
by Mike Walker
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