Jungle Cat

[Venkat Jyoti Joga]

As I was returning from a lake side after spending good half day without much interesting snap, I saw this animal in the fields. It was not looking like a normal cat, I aimed my camera and made a sound to get a view of this guy and bang I caught him on my gun. Was so thrilled to notice that it is the Jungle Cat, as it was late evening could not capture much of action, however the day ended with this superb catch

[Debasis Bose]

Lovely image, good eye contact. Which location did you get this cat

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely sighting. Nice that you could get a eye contact. Please post your equipment and EXIF detials to help in commenting. Is this a crop? How are you post processing the images? Thanks for sharing.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice. Its colour changes with terrain. Thanks for sharing. SaktiWild

[Venkat Jyoti Joga]

Nikon D500 - 200-500 Nikkor Lense
f/7.1
1/800 sec
ISO-3200
500mm

Yes Cropped to a great extent

I use GIMP

[Venkat Jyoti Joga]

Thank you Debasis. This was close of my house in Hyderabad (Dundigal Lake)

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I think the high ISO and large crop has taken away details. Nevertheless, the processing can be better. The blacks in the hind leg has lost detail. There as supposed to be black stripes on the leg. At the moment it appears to be completely black. It is also difficult to make out if there is a tuft of hair on top of the ear. They are often found near wetlands. So it appears that there would be some place for it to hide near the lake. For further details on the species : https://www.indiawilds.com/diary/species-in-focus-wild-india-jungle-cat/

[Venkat Jyoti Joga]

Yes Sir there are black strips in the hind leg.