The Coyote Thread

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MrFotoFool said:
POST YOUR COYOTE (Canis latrans) PHOTOS HERE. Please specify where it was taken. I am primarily interested in wild specimens (wild includes urban environments), though captive/zoo photos that are particularly interesting are okay. If it was captive please state so.
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I'm almost ashamed to post a coyote photo in this thread, there are so many images that far exceed the quality of what I'm going to post. I'm going to include a couple not because they are that good, but because of the stories associated with them.

This first photo is of a coyote in Death Valley and is a great example of why animals should not be fed in national parks. I saw this coyote in the middle of the road approximately a mile away. As I slowed I expected it to move from the road. It actually made me come to a complete stop. I pulled off the road and it circled the vehicle I was in. I had a short lens, but opened the window for a shot. It actually moved closer. I photographed it for about fifteen minutes before it grew bored and looked for someone who would feed it. That didn't take long. Another car came along, stopped on the road without pulling over, and started feeding it. A national park ranger came up behind the car within just a few minutes, was unimpressed with their parking location and feeding practices and gave them a ticket and had them move along. This was taken with a Nikon F100 in December 2000.

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This second photo is a coyote seen within a ten-minute walk from my house in a greenbelt area of the subdivision where I live in Aurora, Colorado. This was one of a mated pair I saw together. I'm pretty sure they had a den in the greenbelt area. I've now seen multiple deer, a lone antelope, a fox, and a coyote pair in this neighborhood. This was taken with a Nikon D850 and Nikon 500mm PF with 1.4 TC in July 2023.

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Two from this morning at my favorite local spot, Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson. I found them using a trick some of you US city dwellers may have learned. When you hear an ambulance siren in the distance stop and listen, because coyotes will start howling in reply.

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Cool thread. I'll share a selection from the last several years.

The paparazzi were out in full force in 2016 waiting for these pups to emerge from a roadside den in Yellowstone.

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In the summer of 2018, this handsome animal paused in northern Arizona's Lower Lake Mary to consider its options in regards to elk and pronghorn herds off in the distance.

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A few months later in December, I came across this scene: elk and coyote carcasses in Lower Lake Mary. Had they suffered serious injury in battle? Did the coyote get caught trying to sneak a meal from a fresh mountain lion kill? The real story is a mystery.

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In August 2020, I was walking across Lower Lake Mary to setup at the forest's edge for elk when I noticed movement in the growing twilight. I dropped to the ground amidst the tall grass and did my best to discreetly setup the camera. A lone coyote was tentatively making its way across the lakebed toward the forest. Moments later, two 'yotes shot from the forest with one chasing down the interloper, which cowered in submission when caught.

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In June of '22, I was setup in the Coconino National Forest for elk and pronghorn. A pronghorn doe entered the clearing to graze. She was followed by several coyotes that encircled her from a distance and started howling. I suspect they were trying to rattle her into revealing the location of newborn fawns.

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Last summer, this coyote was methodically scowering the Grass Flat Tank meadow in the Coconino National Forest when it scared up this newborn elk calf. Though the calf could barely stand, it towered over the 'yote. That was enough to discourage the predator from attempting to make a kill.

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A couple of weeks ago, I enjoyed some quality time making portraits of this beauty.

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I took these photos on Sunday morning. There were four yotes by a county road but most took off into the mesquites as soon as I got within a quarter mile. The one in the pictures didn't run but took his time in a trot. As most coyotes do he stopped and looked back when he thought he was far enough away.

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We were in a drought for 6 months and the Coyote's looked very ragged. In mid to late april we started getting rains and the coyotes coats changed drastically. I suspect there diets got a lot better over the last month.
 
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