00:01I have a wildcat inside.
00:21So hello again.
00:25I'm back in Greece
00:27at one of my favorite places
00:29which I'm sure you will come by now if you've followed my videos
00:33Lake Kergini.
00:35And I have a couple of days here
00:36before I pick up a group
00:39to take them to the west of the country
00:42near the Albanian border
00:44for a landscape photography trip.
00:48And in the meantime I have a couple of days here in Kergini
00:52and it's a particularly grey day today
00:56so I thought I would come down to the fields
00:59on the northern side of the lake
01:05to see if I might be lucky enough to spot a wildcat.
01:13They are quite elusive.
01:15And they are mostly nocturnal.
01:18You do, if you're lucky, get a sighting of them in the afternoons.
01:25So it's about an hour now before sunset.
01:30Actually, no, an hour and a half.
01:35So there's a good chance they might be out and about if they're hungry.
01:41So I'm just going to drive around the tracks here
01:43and the fields
01:44and see if I might get lucky and spot one.
01:49So as soon as I navigate this ditch.
02:01So yeah, I'll get back to you shortly, hopefully.
02:08With any luck, I've been spotted a wildcat.
02:14So I shall see you again.
03:04I have a wildcat in front of me.
03:10She's quite far away, she's absolutely beautiful, so I'm going to hang out here
03:36and see what happens, and usually he or she has a white patch on his chest, on his chest,
04:12I have not seen that before.
04:32I have not seen that before.
04:34I have not seen that before.
05:04I have not seen that before.
05:24I have not seen that before.
05:54I have not seen that before.
06:24I have not seen that before.
06:49I have not seen that before, so I can get closer to her again.
06:55I'm scared if I do that, she'll just make a dash for it.
07:04On the other hand, I'm going to lose her anyway.
07:12Let's see if I can...
07:16What she does if I...
07:17I have not seen that before.
07:25No reactions.
07:36So she's hunkered down into the field.
07:39She's not made a dash for it just here.
07:46looks awesome.
07:47I don't know...
07:48I liked it.
07:48It is.
07:50A lot of little glasses.
08:36Come see just how unafraid she is of me.
08:47Normally they give you a couple of seconds as you stop them in the field and she's just
08:52grooming herself.
08:54They give you a couple of seconds as they look back to check out who you are and then they're
09:00off.
09:02And this one, she's just totally confident in herself and unafraid of me.
09:11And she's just having a groom.
10:08Come on, look around, she's walking away from me now.
10:16And she's gone off into the long grass.
10:19That was incredible.
10:24I'm so chuffed about that, I'm going to try and see if I can move back and further round
10:33and see if I can get more shots of her so I'll be back with you in a bit.
10:39So I found her again in the next field.
10:59Let me see if she's on the move again.
11:14Again, she's moving away from me this time and I have a feeling if she goes into the next
11:19field, I won't be able to re-find her.
11:50So, let me see if she's moving away from me.
12:23Okay, she's going way off into the distance now into the other field.
12:28It's incredibly lucky there to see her and to have such a great sighting for such a long time.
12:36And that she would even groom herself in front of me. It's just amazing.
12:47Okay, she's gone.
12:53So just as I'm driving out of these fields here, I'm trying to keep my eyes open as well.
12:59So forgive me for looking away from the camera.
13:02I'm trying to keep my eyes open just in case I should get super, super lucky and spot another one.
13:10I think that we can call that mission accomplished on the wildcat.
13:18I was pretty hopeful that we would see one and maybe grab a shot or two.
13:27But I fully didn't expect to have such a long viewing of the wildcat and even that it would sit
13:35there grooming itself in front of me.
13:38So anyway, I think I shall call it there.
13:41And thank you for watching.
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14:18Bye for now.
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