{"id":21883,"date":"2014-02-05T05:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=21883"},"modified":"2014-02-05T05:59:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:59:06","slug":"the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coyote And The Pesky Deer Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coyotes really don’t like biting flies.\u00a0 In fact I believe I can safely say that they\u00a0truly hate horse flies and deer flies in particular.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21885\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,716\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1346054116","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.00125","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"coyote 4749 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley-300x238.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21885\" alt=\"coyote 4749 ron dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4749-ron-dudley-400x318.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u00a01\/800. f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This fine specimen had been hunting for voles on Antelope Island when, as they are prone to do, it climbed on top of a boulder for a better view of its surroundings.\u00a0 The setting is cluttered but I had a clear view of the coyote on an elevated perch so I fired away.\u00a0 There was mixed sun and clouds so in this series you’ll notice significant variations in the tones of the images.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21886\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,727\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"8","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1346054169","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.0025","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"coyote 4789 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley-300x242.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21886\" alt=\"coyote 4789 ron dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley-150x121.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4789-ron-dudley-400x323.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>1\/400. f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>These photos were taken in August – prime time for biting flies.\u00a0 Mosquitoes and biting gnats don’t seem to bother coyotes too much but they sure don’t like horse flies and deer flies.\u00a0 Here a deer fly has landed its snout.\u00a0 The coyote tried to ignore it for a few seconds…<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21887\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"8","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1346054180","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.0025","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"coyote 4799 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley-240x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21887\" alt=\"coyote 4799 ron dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4799-ron-dudley-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em><strong>1\/400. f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0but in the end it just couldn’t resist swiping at the annoying\u00a0insect with its long tongue.\u00a0 I wish I’d caught the tongue wrapped up and over the snout but I was just a little late.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21888\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,693\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"8","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1346054188","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.00125","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"coyote 4807 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley-300x231.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21888\" alt=\"coyote 4807 ron dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4807-ron-dudley-400x308.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em><strong>1\/800. f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here you see the reaction of\u00a0the coyote to the deer fly directly over its head.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21891\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,712\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"8","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1346054188","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.00125","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"coyote 4808 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley-300x237.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21891\" alt=\"coyote 4808 ron dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4808-ron-dudley-400x316.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>1\/800. f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Then the insect moved to a less vulnerable place over its haunches…<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21889\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,694\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1346054202","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.0005","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"coyote 4820 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley-300x231.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21889\" alt=\"coyote 4820 ron dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley-400x308.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>1\/2000. f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">which allowed the coyote to give me a perky, “smiling” pose that I like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know well from experience that deer fly bites hurt and coyotes are particularly vulnerable to them around their face and ears.\u00a0 They often snap at biting flies with their jaws and when they catch them they typically eat them but they do so very quickly,\u00a0though carefully.\u00a0 From their reaction it’s quite obvious (and amusing)\u00a0when they don’t kill the fly fast enough and they’re bitten inside the mouth but they seem very willing to take the risk.\u00a0 Perhaps it’s the revenge factor – the same satisfaction I get when I kill one\u00a0that’s been biting me…<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ron<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Note:\u00a0 If I’m not mistaken this coyote has an injured lower right leg –\u00a0perhaps an old break.\u00a0 The joint\u00a0looks swollen and the lower leg\u00a0seems to be turned outward (best seen in the second and third photos).\u00a0 It’s very common to see coyotes limping, sometimes severely but I don’t remember that this one was noticeably limping so perhaps the injury is an old one that is no longer causing significant pain.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coyotes really don’t like biting flies. In fact I believe I can safely say that they truly hate horse flies and deer flies in particular.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/the-coyote-and-the-pesky-deer-fly\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,334,374],"tags":[31,1853,401,98,1548,614,1854,311],"class_list":["post-21883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island","category-birds","category-coyotes","tag-antelope-island-2","tag-broken-leg","tag-canis-latrans","tag-coyote","tag-deer-fly","tag-injury","tag-limping","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/coyote-4820-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-5GX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}