1710_1675 Stealth
Coyote is trying a new strategy. This is the same coyote we met in yesterday's upload (and the previous day); she's young and inexperienced. Now her plan is to slink along the bottom of a slope. Prairie dogs are at the top, feeding and keeping a communal lookout for predators, but they can't see her. She can't see them, but the wind is in her favour and her nose and ears tell her everything she needs to know.
She was patient. She lay flat, waiting, alert. Then suddenly she broke into a dash up the hill. One prairie dog had strayed to about the halfway point between her and the safety of its burrow. She had a chance. But... no reward. Another miss.
Voles for lunch. Again. Sigh.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2017 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
1710_1675 Stealth
Coyote is trying a new strategy. This is the same coyote we met in yesterday's upload (and the previous day); she's young and inexperienced. Now her plan is to slink along the bottom of a slope. Prairie dogs are at the top, feeding and keeping a communal lookout for predators, but they can't see her. She can't see them, but the wind is in her favour and her nose and ears tell her everything she needs to know.
She was patient. She lay flat, waiting, alert. Then suddenly she broke into a dash up the hill. One prairie dog had strayed to about the halfway point between her and the safety of its burrow. She had a chance. But... no reward. Another miss.
Voles for lunch. Again. Sigh.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2017 James R. Page - all rights reserved.