Posted in nature on May 19, 2009|
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We’ve seen two coyotes hunting in the field south of the house quite a bit lately. This morning they were hunting along the west row of hedge trees, where many pack rats live among the tree roots. Then they got interested in the area around the woodpile, where Buster has also been after something – bunnies, snakes, who knows? These photos are in the order I took them.

You can just barely see one here.

This is the coolest shot I took. It looks like he's jumping off the woodpile, but he's actually behind it.

He looked right at me! He was about 20 feet away from the deck.

This isn't the same coyote as in the previous picture. That one had gone around behind the pile.

They saw us and decided to leave, not terribly hastily.

Here the coyotes are barely visible in the long grass. A moment later they were gone.
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