A prickly situation . . .

emerging . . .

on my way . . .

on the way up . . .

almost there . . .

hmmm . . .

it's a bit of a tight squeeze . . .

one last try on the way down . . .

vanishing . . . into my flower bed . . .

hey, what are you looking at . . .

Last night just as I was heading to bed I was astonished to see this fella coming out of the trees and into our yard! OK, what is THAT? oh, it's a porcupine! Run to get my camera (battery has one bar left) and my card is in the computer. Run to the computer, get the card, insert in camera, set up tripod . . . start shooting! I couldn't believe my eyes when he started to climb up the bird feeder, and with ease, albeit a tight squeeze once he got there. He didn't get much to eat so he left quite soon, vanishing into my flower bed. After he was a long way off I went out on the deck and tried to take some photos without the window between us. He heard the camera clicking and sat right up and faced me. It was a bit spooky and I had bad dreams last night. I'm going to be a lot more careful when I go wandering through the yard from now on. Note that these photos were taken with the ISO cranked all the way up to 1600 so they are quite grainy - it was almost dark when I took these.

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