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This young Coyote was fairly tolerant of my presence in a prairie dog town. I spent perhaps an hour following the little predator at a respectful distance. Four or five coyotes - a family group - are working this dogtown these days as the prairie dogs feed heavily to pack on extra calories for the long winter ahead. Coyotes are such expressive animals; watch one for a few minutes and it will almost always do something interesting...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Today as I crept up on the Coyotes, Momma had me from two-hundred yards out or more and limped off to the tree line. But Candy was asleep by the pond. She was rolling around on the ground and making little growls as if dreaming of baby ducks or some such thing. I got about ten feet from her before I startled her back to earth. She gave me a backwards glance and a disgruntled snarl as she gathered her wits while running off. I wish I hadn't, but I'm certain I spoiled her dream. I'm ashamed to say, I was a bit proud. It's not too often that you get the drop on a trickster.
I think she's a she. I think she's young too. She just acted young. When I was pulling into a parking spot at a favorite regional park, suddenly about a dozen mallards flew up out of the wetland reeds in front of me. I thought, "geez, I haven't even opened my car door yet". Then I saw the cause - this coyote came up out of the reeds too, probably was looking for duck for breakfast. It turned out to be a sweet heart-warming encounter. She let me photograph her for almost 15 minutes before she loped out of camera range. Mostly, she moved back and forth along a high strip dividing the small lake from the sunken wetlands area. She let me move back and forth with her, I on the parking area fringe running parallel. She showed me a nice doggie stretch and roll, snapped at mysterious things in the air, dodged an invisible playmate, and basically just looked happy and content. I sure was, and I got a nice boost to my step count too.
Check her "large" - I did pretty good handholding my birdie gear that was on the passenger seat. I do shoot that 600 prime a lot with the 1.4 tele on it, but on a tripod with gimbal head. No time for that - just ease out of the car and hope she hangs. So I got some weight-lifting exercise too.
Something didn't seem right with this girl. She was standing in the middle of the road at Pt. Reyes National Seashore. Cars had to go around her. Most stopped to photograph her from a car window as I did. She never made eye contact with anyone. Later she was laying in the middle of the street. I hoped she wasn't sick from eating poison meat.
I found this coyote last weekend on a morning hike. As the sun was rising, I could see ears and a head popping around in the tall grass. I waited for it near the edge of the field hoping it would show itself. I lucked out with a few brief looks before it disappeared back into the grass.
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Cosumnes River Preserve
Galt, CA
A coyote watches in the distance. Unfortunately the coyote appears to be affected by mange as the tail hair is almost gone. Otherwise it seemed active and alert.
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I've been working hard for 2 months to cull my photo vault, and I can report I've reclaimed over a terabyte of free space. And look what I found: frame 3 of 3 of a coyote pounce. Yup, almost 9 years ago. Not that I've not seen them on occasion, but I miss it - various reasons, at least twice by heat wave distortion. Not this time - May Gray morning light. Kinda cool you can tell she's a working mama. She missed on this one though.
After a morning of futility - sometimes the wildlife just happens to be elsewhere - I was driving home along what passes for a highway in southwestern Saskatchewan. A rural two-laner. At least it's paved. And I zipped right past this Coyote that was sitting by the roadside like somebody's dog. Braked. Stopped. Backed up. Still there. It stood up. I started shooting. It crossed a ditch, slipped under a barbwire fence, sauntered across a field. Stopped occasionally to see what I was up to, but I just sat in the car. It yawned. And trotted away.
In places such as this, where the population is low and traffic is minimal, these encounters can and do happen regularly. More than 80% of Canada's population now live in urban areas - about the same as in the US. People go where the jobs are, and covid notwithstanding, we are a social species. Living in an isolated place isn't for everyone, but it suits me just fine, and this photo is one reason why.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I had a very close encounter with this young Coyote. It was hunting along the parkway road at the margin of a wet area. It would often stop and shoot its muzzle into the grass. It took me awhile to realize it was catching small frogs and dragonflies.
Elk Island National Park, Alberta.
Today, I got to spend about 30 min watching this coyote hunt for mice/voles. This photo was taken just after he gobbled one down. It's remarkable how good they are at hearing them completely covered in snow.
This is a first for me! I went out early today to shoot birds and came across this guy. Very exciting!
Prairie Coyote (Canis latrans) pauses for a brief glance before wandering off into the woods in Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
14 November, 2015.
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Looks as if he would love to play but I think he was wishing that I would go away and not scare his prey.
Mule Deer wisely socially distance themselves from a coyote on the prowl. Photo taken April 24, 2018 with Canon EOS-1DX, 400mm, ISO 2500, f/8, 1/500
Coyote Tobacco. Wildflower.
This wild tobacco is no plant to mess with. Smoked or chewed in small amounts by those who know how to use it, coyote tobacco may be hallucinogenic, and was once used in folk medicine to help alleviate pain.
Full frame. No crop. No post processing.
I think this was the boldest of the 4 or 5 pups. A little later, he joined his siblings in the nearby den.
As promised, here is one more shot of this handsome critter. I could not resist showing both as it is not often I get this good of an encounter.
This ends this series of a morning at Elk Island National Park. Tomorrow, a big surprise, so big I don't even know what I'll post. With weather about to head straight into the deep freeze I may have to start hitting up the archives.
I watched this beautiful, male, Western coyote hunt for around 20-minutes. In that short time he captured and devoured 6 or 8 rodents (probably mostly voles).
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
We had this lovely encounter with a young male coyote hunting by the roadside at dusk.
A young Coyote investigates a scent trail in the snow. The lean season is upon us, and young predators have a steep learning curve ahead; not all of them will make it. Fortunately there are a lot of rodents on the prairie, and not all of them go torpid in the winter: prairie voles and white-footed mice are active beneath the snow pack all winter. Predators such as coyotes, foxes, badgers, weasels, and owls are essential in keeping the rodent populations under control.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.