Coyote Pup
Lower Field, Greasy Creek
The braver of two coyote pups living in a culvert on the way back from feeding calves that we're weaning.
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6/1 Update: It didn’t take mother coyote too long to move her pups, perhaps chastising the pair for letting a human get so close – the scent of my presence all around. My white pickup parked a couple of hundred feet up the road had the pup’s focus while I took pictures, embedded in a rockpile where the grass was laid down with their playing. I waited about thirty minutes for the second pup to come out of the culvert, hoping to catch a wrestling match. I even smoked a cigarette while waiting, leaving tobbacco and ash on a boulder as he lay in the grass about twenty feet away. I’m sure he got an earful from mom!