Coyote

AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
edited September 9, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
Coyote are one of my favorite critters to shoot. They show up hunt the area and move on.

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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited September 5, 2012
    Looks like he was watching you eek7.gif Amazing how well they can blend into their surroundings. You caught this guy when the light was just perfect thumb.gif
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  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited September 6, 2012
    dogdots wrote: »
    looks like he was watching you eek7.gif amazing how well they can blend into their surroundings. You caught this guy when the light was just perfect thumb.gif

    thanks mary k. He was watching me......
  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited September 6, 2012
    Gary,

    You ought to start feeding that scrawny Coyote before a rabbit whoops up on her rolleyes1.gif
    Randy
  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited September 6, 2012
    rwells wrote: »
    Gary,

    You ought to start feeding that scrawny Coyote before a rabbit whoops up on her rolleyes1.gif

    Thanks for looking in Randy......I've seen a lot of coyotes in the desert where I live and I have never seen a fat one..... they are built for speed :D
  • SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2012
    Your desert coyotes are so much smaller than ours. Up here they run anywhere from 75 to 140 pounds and have much thicker coats. Also, it is rare to see just one as they usually hunt in packs. He they are wolf crosses with little fear of humans so they are quite aggressive. When we had our farm in winter I'd see their footprints in the snow circling the barn probably after our cat. A lot of small dogs and cats have vanished around here between the coyotes and the bald eagles.
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  • JCJC Registered Users Posts: 768 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2012
    Snowgirl wrote: »
    Your desert coyotes are so much smaller than ours. Up here they run anywhere from 75 to 140 pounds and have much thicker coats. Also, it is rare to see just one as they usually hunt in packs. He they are wolf crosses with little fear of humans so they are quite aggressive. When we had our farm in winter I'd see their footprints in the snow circling the barn probably after our cat. A lot of small dogs and cats have vanished around here between the coyotes and the bald eagles.

    Off topic, kind of, but was there ever a satisfactory explanation for the coyote attack on the singer in Nova Scotia? It made the news here initially, then nothing. That is so far outside of the normal range of coyote behavior around here, I wanted to find out more, but couldn't find anything.
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  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2012
    kolibri wrote: »
    Off topic, kind of, but was there ever a satisfactory explanation for the coyote attack on the singer in Nova Scotia? It made the news here initially, then nothing. That is so far outside of the normal range of coyote behavior around here, I wanted to find out more, but couldn't find anything.


    I believe the coyote were killed. I don't know that there was ever and explanation as to why she was attacked. They are wiled animals.

    I have had two coyotes split up when I came upon them and one circled around behind me. I went on walking and they loped away.

    When hiking with my dog a coyote walked out in front of us maybe 20 feet away and walked across our path and kept looking at my dog. He stopped when he was on my left and another coyote that was hiding behind a cactus on my right, it walked right across in front of us carrying his front leg like it was injured and kept looking at my dog. When he joined up with his buddy on my left he put his injured leg down and they both walked away...... They were just trying to make a living.:D
  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited September 8, 2012
    Snowgirl wrote: »
    Your desert coyotes are so much smaller than ours. Up here they run anywhere from 75 to 140 pounds and have much thicker coats. Also, it is rare to see just one as they usually hunt in packs. He they are wolf crosses with little fear of humans so they are quite aggressive. When we had our farm in winter I'd see their footprints in the snow circling the barn probably after our cat. A lot of small dogs and cats have vanished around here between the coyotes and the bald eagles.

    If we had 140 pound coyotes around here I would be carrying more than just a camera. That would be down right scary. I have seen two coyotes hunting together but have never seen them running in a pack. They may do that here, but I haven't seen it.
  • SnowgirlSnowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins
    edited September 9, 2012
    Azzaro wrote: »
    If we had 140 pound coyotes around here I would be carrying more than just a camera. That would be down right scary. I have seen two coyotes hunting together but have never seen them running in a pack. They may do that here, but I haven't seen it.

    There was a photo in our newspaper a few months ago of one that trappers had killed. Sad in a way, but then again... Where we used to have our farm, since we left, a pack of eight big coyotes moved in. The neighbours hired a trapper to get them out of there because it has become something of a residential area now. Like you said - just trying to make a living.

    Still, even though we live in "civilization" we don't let our dog out from dusk until daylight without a human companion and a leash.

    Wolf behaviour is so different and this new breed of coyote x wolf seems to have picked up the worst traits of both, sadly.

    As for the singer in Cape Breton, we never did hear the final story. The game wardens did, I think, shoot the offending coyote and it was tested for disease. Traditionally coyotes aren't aggressive toward people, but like I said, things have changed and there have been quite a few attacks.
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  • JCJC Registered Users Posts: 768 Major grins
    edited September 9, 2012
    Azzaro wrote: »
    If we had 140 pound coyotes around here I would be carrying more than just a camera. That would be down right scary. I have seen two coyotes hunting together but have never seen them running in a pack. They may do that here, but I haven't seen it.

    I hear them hunting in packs, and socializing at night, when I'm out in the desert, coastal ranges. When I see them though, it's usually the loner. One night I was sitting out by a fire, in a wash they must have used as a thoroughfare, and one came up at night and was circling the fire, trying to figure out what this intrusion on his territory was. He didn't seem to have much fear, just caution. I know they come near/through my camp during the day sometimes, because I come back at night and find new scat on the edges of my camp.


    Snowgirl wrote: »
    There was a photo in our newspaper a few months ago of one that trappers had killed. Sad in a way, but then again... Where we used to have our farm, since we left, a pack of eight big coyotes moved in. The neighbours hired a trapper to get them out of there because it has become something of a residential area now. Like you said - just trying to make a living.

    Still, even though we live in "civilization" we don't let our dog out from dusk until daylight without a human companion and a leash.

    Wolf behaviour is so different and this new breed of coyote x wolf seems to have picked up the worst traits of both, sadly.

    As for the singer in Cape Breton, we never did hear the final story. The game wardens did, I think, shoot the offending coyote and it was tested for disease. Traditionally coyotes aren't aggressive toward people, but like I said, things have changed and there have been quite a few attacks.

    They've always taken unattended pets in the foothills around here, and then people get upset at the coyotes, rather than at the neighbors who leave out food and trash, or at themselves who let their pets out.

    Never heard of them attacking people around here, I know elsewhere in the US they've taken over the wolf niche to some extent, but we don't have that many wolves around to supply much DNA.
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited September 9, 2012
    rwells wrote: »
    Gary,

    You ought to start feeding that scrawny Coyote before a rabbit whoops up on her rolleyes1.gif
    lol3.gif funny stuff thumb.gif

    Nice shot of this one Gary. Further, it has been an interesting read provided by all commenting. That coyotes have been going after people here and there I find alarming and some unexpected. My security level for when out busting brush has just been reset a bit.
    Michael
  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited September 9, 2012
    DaddyO wrote: »
    lol3.gif funny stuff thumb.gif

    Nice shot of this one Gary. Further, it has been an interesting read provided by all commenting. That coyotes have been going after people here and there I find alarming and some unexpected. My security level for when out busting brush has just been reset a bit.


    Thanks Michael glad you liked it......... We have had some issues here in the Phoenix area with coyote but it was minor stuff no all out attacks. One coyote was nipping at a kids heals while he was riding his bike....
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