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<\/a><\/p>\n1\/800, f.5.6, ISO 1250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nThree minutes later the coyote was headed back to the relative safety of Antelope Island proper along the sandy beach. “He” was a little closer to me now so occasionally he looked my way as he checked me out to make sure I wasn’t a potential threat. Soon after I took this shot I continued to the island and let him make the rest of the trip in peace.<\/p>\n
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Baby it’s cold<\/em> outside! Especially for October. As I type this at 4:50 AM my thermometer reads 13\u00b0 F and it’s likely to drop even more before the sun comes up. Record low temperatures are being set all over Utah and in many other areas of the intermountain west. In some ways I actually welcome these temperatures after such a long, hot and dry summer. I’m hoping they’ll bring in more migrating birds, raptors especially, and though I’ll soon grow weary of the cold I find it refreshing for now.<\/p>\nFor me one of the few downsides to the record cold is the absolute certainty that uninformed and self-serving folks, including but not limited to idiot politicians and pundits, will try to use it as “evidence” to dispute the climate crisis. I expect that trend to dramatically increase in certain media outlets and on social media beginning today. I can hardly wait…<\/p>\n
And the beat of ignorance, greed and self destruction goes on.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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