Tony,

Great catch of a pretty elusive American feline. I would love to have the opportunity to be this close to one in the wild.

I think the D200 did fine here for ISO 800 and of course you can't beat the quality of the 200-400. From the exposure info it's obvious the lighting was really tough. I think the noise is well in hand but 1/200 wasn't enough to kill the motion blur. It looks to me from the blur on the front paw that this cat was moving fairly quickly. I really like the shot and granted in a perfect world you could have used ISO200 and 1/800, but as you know better than most, you go with what you can get.

Nice job as usual.

George