Demon squirrel

A lesson in always being prepared - as I turned a corner in the park and set off along a little footpath I heard a rustle in the fallen leaves to my right side. Turning, and switching my camera to 'shoot mode' at the same time, whilst also trying to find the pop-up flash button ,the first shot (in 'manual mode' from my last shot) just served to scare my subject into bolting for the nearest tree. My second and final shot before he vanished into the undergrowth (this time on 'auto') is shown below (the whole episode lasted no more than 5 seconds). It was greatly underexposed but I was determined to extract something from the shot.