Close encounter in the dark

An awful photo, taken with flash in the dark, when I was taken completely by surprise, lol! Around 6:00 a.m. on the morning of 4 January 2013, I had arrived a bit early at the meeting place for the Horseshoe Canyon/Drumheller Christmas Bird Count. Sitting in my car, I noticed way down the road a small, dark shape moving. I thought it was someone taking their dog for a walk. No one appeared, though, and my next thought was that maybe it was a local Jackrabbit, just looking darker than it would in daylight. The animal kept going off the sidewalk into people's gardens and then reappearing again. When it got quite a lot closer, I was amazed to see that it was a Skunk, waddling towards my car. Getting out of my car, I tried to take a close shot with flash, but all I got was a total blur with two bright circles for its eyes. Tried again and managed to get this pathetic shot of its rear end disappearing down the road. Had to work on the image in order to get even this much! Posting just for my own record, as I think this is only the second totally wild Skunk I've ever seen. It was definitely a good start to a great day of birding!