Yeah just a little tip for all these animal photos. Well that is if you dont have some mega exspensive zoom lens and a tripod. To get them you got to get real close. I was maybe about 3-6 feet from the animals.
How you go about doing this. Simple, stick your camera straight out (not too far to where its uncomfortable, but enough to where you get some extra, basically a little forward of your normal shot) You need an lcd for this as well and move forward VERY VERY slowly. Dont go too close though and zoom as much as possible or needed.
Ive done this on squirrels and just about everything else that normally runs like hell if you take a normal walk up to it. For some reason when I have a camera and im moving in super slow, these animals just wont move. I can almost go and touch them afterwards.
Maybe its cause the camera is basically covering my face as I move in and they just see that. So its nothing too threatening or familiar. But afterwards I take the shot I would drop the camera down and be like damn....your close.
Then snap a couple more and back away kinda laughing how they just allowed me to get close and photograph them.