First one is Grand Teton, second is Yellowstone.

Malheur NWR

I have been exploring the wildlife threads and really enjoying the i ages that are posted. I recently decided to watch this Backcountry more with DPReview closing. I am a cotton farmer in Texas and carry the camera with me nearly all the time be it in the truck or on the tractor. Below are a few captures of coyotes that I have gotten over the years. The last two to three years have been rough on the populations with two to three years of drought. Just don't see as many.


I took the first image during planting season in 2017. I was on the tractor planting cotton when i saw this girl looking for food in a patch of wheat. I just stopped the tractor and watched her for awhile as she got closer and closer.

In the second and 4th image I worked for about two weeks every morning to get closer to these pups. Every morning I would get on the tractor and go about a little closer each day until they ran into their den. The same pups were always the last to go into the den and the same two pups were the first to go in. It was fun and exciting to go to the field to try and get closer.

The third photo was taken a couple of years ago. This coyote was running across a pasture where there were oil wells. The coyote didn't run or anything just kept walking and paid me no mine except to look over at me.

I was at Tucson's Sweetwater Wetlands this morning, first time in several months. I would sometimes see coyotes in a lower basin off limits to visitors and on the few times I would see them around sunrise on the visitor paths they would run off at first sight of people. This morning there was one hunting in the pond reeds (it caught a cotton rat) that did not run off but let me follow at a distance. I saw it again an hour later (third shot here).

All of these photos are of coyotes in Yellowstone.

These are also of a coyote in Yellowstone. The first image is a capture from a video I shot of a wolf kill across the Lamar Valley. The photo is of a wolf chasing a coyote away from the kill. It shows the size difference between the two. The following photos are of a coyote we think was the one being chased. This coyote seemed to find us humans less of a threat than the wolf and wandered up amongst us. In the last one, the coyote was less than 10 feet away. The plus to this was there was a ranger right next to us just in case. It was pretty cool to have Wiley E Coyote wander by and watch the pack of wolves across the valley.

A couple of days ago I was on the tractor in a field and cutting the old cotton stalks. This female coyote was moving about the fields looking for food. From insects to mice she was finding food. She was a little rough looking and a couple of pics she looks like she is nursing a litter of pups. I'm hoping to find a den on the farm which is probably in and old abandoned 12 to 16 inch concrete underground irrigation line. I am really hoping to find the den so I can possibly get pictures of the pups.

I took these pictures from the seat of my tractor. The coyote was not afraid of the tractor and moved parallel with the tractor. Also those stalks in front of the coyote are the ones I am cutting.

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One from dusk tonight at Sweetwater Wetlands (Tucson,Arizona). Even with teleconverter for effective 840mm, this is cropped quite a bit (from 7000px down to 4000px). Processed with Topaz Sharpen AI and Photoshop Elements.

A couple more from this evening, once again at Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson, and once again cropped in post. First one is at 840mm (200-600 plus 1.4x). Second one, proverbial coyote and roadrunner, they had thankfully moved closer because it was so dark by then I had to use my 70-200 (at 200mm) to get f2.8 (edit: I see I was stopped down slightly to f3.5).

Evening of June 19, 2023, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, USA.

Walking a trail in a local park (southern California) when this one slowly wandered toward me before disappearing in the brush.

This morning at Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson.

I'm kind of tired this morning

Some of my favorite coyotes from Point Reyes.

Wind Cave, S.D. '21.

A couple days ago I was back at my usual spot, Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson, arriving before sunrise. Loud rustling in the brush right next to the path and a rabbit came running out with a coyote in hot pursuit. (It was part of a pack of three - other two were on other side of fence). I had seen a Cooper's hawk in the tree above them but did not realize until I reviewed photos that it followed the rabbit as well. All three species visible in first photo. Then I walked on and saw a group of javelinas in a basin and one of the coyotes appeared above. It seemed to be walking away but then turned and walked towards the javelinas, but had to drop below the path and run as they went after it. This is at least the third time I have seen javelinas chasing a coyote in Tucson.

February 5, 2024, in the dry Santa Cruz River adjacent to Sweetwater Wetlands (Tucson, USA).

January 22, 2024 in my backyard. Shot through the window in a panic with my BIF settings. Lightroom denoise and Topaz Photo AI sharpening applied. This is the best I could do given the high noise level.

From Yellowstone in winter.

TomSavage said:

January 22, 2024 in my backyard. Shot through the window in a panic with my BIF settings. Lightroom denoise and Topaz Photo AI sharpening applied. This is the best I could do given the high noise level. View attachment 80984

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Nice shot especially given the circumstances! I love the look of a damp coyote!