{"id":10667,"date":"2012-12-22T06:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2012-12-22T07:20:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T14:20:38","slug":"indecisive-coyote-with-a-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/indecisive-coyote-with-a-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Indecisive Coyote With A Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coyotes sometimes prowl the causeway to Antelope Island early in the morning.\u00a0 While they’ll certainly take the occasional vole they may come across, voles aren’t really their intended quarry.\u00a0 There are far more voles on the island than there are along the causeway.\u00a0 Coyotes come onto the causeway to scavenge.<\/p>\n

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During winter there are many ducks along the causeway and occasionally one of them dies – an easy meal for a coyote.\u00a0 But most often these coyotes are after falcon leftovers.\u00a0 Peregrine Falcons and Prairie falcons often hunt the causeway and most ducks are too large\u00a0for either species to completely consume, so there’s nearly\u00a0always leftovers.<\/p>\n

Three days ago I found this coyote with a duck.\u00a0 The bird appeared to be frozen so I suspect it was carrion.\u00a0 Here, the coyote couldn’t decide which way to go\u00a0with its meal – left or right, because\u00a0the causeway is narrow and the animal is confined by the lake in the back and the road in front, which gave me an indecisive posture that I like (despite the side light).<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coyotes sometimes prowl the causeway to Antelope Island early in the morning.\u00a0 While they’ll certainly take the occasional vole they may come across, voles aren’t really their intended quarry.\u00a0 There are far more voles on the island than there are along the causeway.\u00a0 Coyotes come onto the causeway to scavenge.   \u00a01\/2500, f\/5.6, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, not baited During winter there are many ducks along the causeway and occasionally one of them dies – an easy meal for a coyote.\u00a0 But most often these coyotes are after falcon leftovers.\u00a0 Peregrine Falcons and Prairie falcons often hunt the causeway and most ducks are too large\u00a0for either species to completely consume, so there’s nearly\u00a0always leftovers. Three days ago I found this coyote with a duck.\u00a0 The bird appeared to be frozen so I suspect it was carrion.\u00a0 Here, the coyote couldn’t decide which way to go\u00a0with its meal – left or right, because\u00a0the causeway is narrow and the animal is confined by the lake in the back and the road in front, which gave me an indecisive posture that I like (despite the side light). Ron<\/p>\n

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