{"id":19146,"date":"2013-10-10T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=19146"},"modified":"2013-10-10T04:07:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T10:07:40","slug":"coyote-stained-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/coyote-stained-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyote Stained Yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t ask me how it happened.\u00a0 I’m still trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n

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We ran into two yellow-stained coyotes on Antelope Island this morning – this adult and a youngster.\u00a0 They were traveling together and both were stained bright yellow on parts of their faces and ears.<\/p>\n

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This view shows the staining behind the mouth and ears better.\u00a0 The yellow was even brighter and more obvious than it appears in these photos.<\/p>\n

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This time of year the island is awash in yellow – from sunflowers, the last of the mullein and from rabbit brush.\u00a0\u00a0Lots of rabbit brush!\u00a0 I dug out this shot to show you what the rabbit brush looks like in bloom (taken about the same time last year).<\/p>\n

My initial assumption was that the staining was\u00a0rabbit brush pollen that got on the coyotes when they rooted at the\u00a0base of a plant for prey or carrion.\u00a0 But I got out of my truck and tested several plants by rubbing their flower clusters in my hand\u00a0to see if they left any yellow\u00a0pollen behind.\u00a0 They didn’t (but man, do those flowers\u00a0ever stink!\u00a0 Believe me, there’s good reason for the species name “nauseosa”).\u00a0\u00a0 Mia did the same thing with sunflowers –\u00a0nothing significant.\u00a0 There’s not enough mullein blossoms left to even be considered the source (you can see one lonely remnant mullein flower to the left of the frame in the\u00a0first image).<\/p>\n

So I’m stumped.\u00a0 My best guess is that it was rabbit brush pollen and\u00a0that there were areas of those plants on the island that were more actively producing pollen than the ones I checked.\u00a0 Rabbit brush pollen is the bane of many allergy sufferers throughout the west so it must produce lots of it.<\/p>\n

Whatever the cause,\u00a0seeing yellow coyotes certainly got my attention.<\/p>\n

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

Don’t ask me how it happened. I’m still trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n

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