First Contact - Stray Shows Itself & Surprise Live-As-Posting Update In Description.

Procedure I bet others have done: 1. Identify bandit's existence. 2. Monitor. 3. Remote visual exchanges as it flees. 4. Slower retreats; perhaps a backwards glance or two. 5. What I call formal First Contact: deliberately showing itself, tolerating yammer (getting used to voice).
Next? All bets off except first (wrong!) belief of rarely -- if ever -- seeing it in more than surprise glimpses. Holy hell, as I'm writing this she's in the backyard, boldly walking over to the pheasant feeders... oops, passing those ... heading over to the narrow grassy path into the back Outer Territories. Where I ALSO spotted her yesterday. Head, at least, raised above the grass as she stared at a culvert up there (and many rabbits). Sitting in full sight looking out on field. Let's take out some food ... She hid. I pretended not to notice her, did not look in that direction but instead took dry food out to normal spot on back patio. With usual come-get-it container shaking and calls.
... Ok, final point interrupted is the extra wow in the Lucy approach. No fights. No hostile body language.