Now that’s a cat-cher!

Paul Rifkin, 60, and Lauren O’Dea, 32, from New South Wales, Australia, were on a safari in the Serengeti in Tanzania when they captured footage of a leopard leaping into the air in an attempt to catch a stork.

Luckily for the bird, it managed to fly away just in time to avoid getting snared in the big cat’s claws.

“The leopard flew out of the grass and reached out for the stork as it flapped its wings for its life,” O’Dea told Caters News. “Missing by just millimeters, the leopard landed in the grass and defeated, retreated back to a tree.”

O’Dea recorded the footage and Rifkin took stunning photographs of the encounter.

“I focused and locked my light on the stork, I waited for the first flap of the stork and pressed the shutter,” Rifkin said.

“The most common question I’m asked is, did it get the stork?” My answer is always, you decide, as that’s the beauty of a photo,” he added.