Wildlife photographer sets up camera in woods - and returns to find hilarious photoshoot

[Submariner]

A wildlife enthusiast who set up a camera trap in the woods hoping to capture a bobcat on film returned to find an hilarious photoshoot posed by a passer-by instead.

Jeff Wirth, a conservationist and wildlife tracker from Washington State, was inspired to set up a camera after exploring a wetland area created by beavers and noticing signs that a bobcat had also been in vicinity.



The homemade camera trap was programmed to detect movement and when it was triggered, the camera and flash would spring into action and take a series of photos.

Returning to the site each week to check the footage he had obtained, Jeff was left disappointed until he came across a sequence of images left by an unexpected visitor.



It captured a man in a hi-vis vest who had stumbled across the camera and seized the opportunity to pose for a series of photos lying playfully on a fallen tree trunk.

Jeff had returned to the site on a regular basis to change the batteries in the camera and said:

"I got a few images of critters including raccoons, weasels, a few bobcat photos, and a number of birds, but nothing I was super happy with so I left the camera there.
"As you may notice, he was not camera-shy, to say the least.

"He hammed it up pretty good and left me with a sequence of images in a variety of poses."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/wildlife-photographer-sets-up-camera-22509438.amp

[hlthe2b]

1. That might be worth even more!

[brush]

2. That guy is a definite ham.

[VarryOn]

3. Saw this a couple days ago and thought it was hilarious...

it's refreshing to see someone having fun in life and not being so damned serious or mad about something! We need more like him!

[Totally Tunsie]

4. Dance like no-one is watching!

[blaze]

5. Hahaha!!! nt