Leap Day

Happy Leap Day, everyone.

I just returned from my winter trip in Yellowstone.  As mentioned in my last post from the park, the fox action was crazy this month.  It got even better when I took my tour group into the park interior, where we had six or seven foxes during our visits to Hayden Valley.

This is the female in a courting pair we spotted during our final day in the interior.  She was being stalked by a male, but took time out to do a little hunting during the courtship proceedings.  This is not the full mousing leap so many photographers strive to capture.  It was more of a half-hearted jump.  But the deep snow in Hayden meant we didn't have to deal with any interfering sagebrush, and as a result, it's probably the "cleanest" mousing sequence anyone in the group (including myself) had captured to date.

Canon 1DX
Canon 500mm f/4 IS
ISO 200
1/2000th
f/7.1
Hand-held

Max