I have recently been trying to take a photograph of an adder, because two friends have had such good results.
One has taken several with a camera phone. Another has taken a striking photo with a proper camera. This morning’s early walk in the woods was another of my adder-hunting escapades. We didn’t see any adders but had a pretty good view (but not such a good photograph) of a Reeves’s Muntjac deer. Muntjacs are lone and very shy creatures but are quite common in the woods and forests of Suffolk.
However, the “safari” was not in vain. After only a couple of minutes walking, I spotted a fox lying in a sunny spot in the undergrowth. My lack of experience with my Nikon had me fumbling with focus, and exposure pre-set type, and taking the lens cap off (again!). He was looking right at us, because we were “in the sun” from his viewpoint, but I just managed to get a reasonable photograph before he stood up and walked away.
The result is not as sharp as it might look in this reduced image - this is a small crop out of a 3872×2092 pixel image - but I was quite pleased with it, as my first ever fox photo.