The wiley coyote

[Faulkner]

Earlier this week I was out repairing a fence in my pasture from a tree that a storm had blown over on it, and as I was taking a break I thought I saw movement out a couple hundred yards or so across the field. I reached in the truck and pulled out my excellent Steiner binoculars and could see it was a coyote. I reached back in the truck and pulled out my camera and iPhone and walked over behind the downed tree I'd been cutting up, laid the iPhone on top of the truck and selected a baby rabbit call I had downloaded in iTunes.

It didn't seem to take long to get the coyotes attention, so I set up with the camera behind the tree and watched the coyote trot my direction. I lost sight of it for a few moments, but almost ghost-like I saw it standing and looking in my direction from behind a fence row. I stood perfectly still and only moved enough to snap a few pictures. It then jumped the fence and continued to where I was, obviously intent on finding out what was causing that baby rabbit sound.

It came up to within about 25 yards from me when it started to get suspicious that something wasn't quite right. It raised it's nose looking for a scent, and may have picked up something. After a few moments, it turned and went back the way it came, only slipping under the fence this time, and disappeared.

I may be entering the picture of it jumping the fence in the county fair photo contest this fall that my wife and I always seem to compete in each year.

 

[Grip_Maker's_Wife]

That's a healthy looking yote. Gorgeous photos and indeed the one of him jumping the fence is an incredible shot. You captured the intensity in his eyes well. I like the first one a lot too.

 

[woodsltc]

Great pics...hope you do well in the photo contest & thanks for sharing them with us.

But, I have to add....if had been me I would have been reaching for my .243 or 12 gauge and taken the "shot" with one of them.


Don

 

[Motorsporting]

Wow! Great pics. I don't know if I like the first one or second one more. You have great stories and pics to go with!! I'm jealous - I always hear the coyotes but never see them (I don't have land or a pasture either though)!

 

[shouldazagged]

Three fine photos, but the second could win that contest for you,

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Here, they are generally viewed through a scope.

 

[Qball]

laid the iPhone on top of the truck and selected a baby rabbit call I had downloaded in iTunes.

A Rabbit call ??

I thought that the Coyote was activated by "BEEP...BEEP"



Really nice pictures

 

[STCM(SW)]

Yea, well if I had him in my sights, I have a Ruger 220 Swift that would have dispatched him to the great beyond.

 

[Onomea]

That is one fat and sassy-looking coyote. Most I've seen -- pictures, mostly -- look scrawny and kinda despondent.

Good luck with the photo competition.

 

[Fishslayer]

That is one fat and sassy-looking coyote. Most I've seen -- pictures, mostly -- look scrawny and kinda despondent.

Good luck with the photo competition.

Pretty much all the ones I see in my 'hood are in pretty good shape. Since the Witch Fire of '07 I haven't seen many and am just starting to hear them in numbers fairly close by.

I "get it" that they're predators and if one made it inside my fence & was a threat to my animals he'd be DRT but I still admire them as beautiful animals & cringe when I see one road killed.

 

[vonn]

As always some awesome pics,Thanks!

 

[Erich]

Fantastic photography. Wow.

 

[BigBill]

I have a predator calling cassette. It's suppose to be so good it suggests the two hunters should sit back to back because the predators can come running in to claim there prize. That includes bears too. Ever use one?

 

[Gulfecho]

Great pictures! The Coyote is one of my favorite animals. It exemplifies adaptability as I believe it resides in all contiguous states in both urban and rural settings. It is a smart and cunning hunter and a playful character. Some may consider them pests and I understand that. I believe they are magnificent animals.

 

[boykinlp]

Fantastic Photos!!!!

 

[16thVACav]

A shame you didn't have your iRifle with you!

 

[chaparrito]

Excellent photos, but you're missing one.....

 

[walkinghorse]

If the contest allows for it you should consider entering all three in a series as you have shown here.
If only one then your choice of the coyote leaping the fence is outstanding!
Really nice!!!
Tree cleaned up and fence restored keeping the critters in ?

 

[model70hunter]

Nice pics.

I see more coyotes each year. Too many I think.

Last deer season my SIL went with me twice. We saw coyotes both days. We walked to a small group of trees where 2 hedge rows intersect. I guess we did the Elmer Fudd Qwietly sneak good. About an hour after we had set up a coyote who had been sleeping in the prairie grass about 10 yards from us awoke, looked at us and left the scene at speed.

 

[Inusuit]

I grew up on a cattle ranch in eastern Colorado. Neither my dad nor I would ever kill a coyote unless they got into mom's chickens. Some of that was because my dad ran a trapline during the Depression. Enough hides to buy hay for the winter. He said he never saw an instance of a coyote killing any of our livestock. Other than chickens, of course. I'd rather see them in the wild. I miss their night music.