Prairie Coyote with Prey - and Watching Deer - near Regina, SK

Its gray-brown, winter-furred body low to the ground, the coyote digs in snow and emerges with...

Coyote with lunch in a snow-covered field near Lumsden, SK  © SB

Lunch?

Whatever that straw-covered, maroon blob in its mouth may be, it looks bloodied and, well, edible.

If you were a coyote, that is. A hungry coyote, prowling a field surrounded by trees, where deer stood in the shadows and watched you.

Two deer watch as the coyote passes by.   © SB

Deer. Danger Passed. Relax. Oops - there's still that photographer...  © SB

What are these? A Coyote, and two White-tailed Deer 
Location: Near Lumsden, north of Regina, Saskatchewan

Photo dates: April 1, 2014. 

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Coyote at Condie Nature Refuge

Late fall, a coyote.

A golden day when the light falls soft and yellow on dry reeds, and the wind rustles stalks and seeds as it draws across the prairie.

Ahead, a movement counter to the fingers of the wind.

A small creature weaves its own path over the field, sees us, stops, ears perked, body still. Watching. Ten minutes pass before it slinks away into tall grass.

Half hidden, watch and wait.   

The stream through the refuge. 

These conifers, above, are not native here. They were planted long ago, when landscape designers believed the introduction of artist foreign elements would enhance natural beauty. Or so explains an old interpretive sign on the hill behind.


What is this? Prairie coyote. 
Location: Condie Nature Refuge, near Regina, Saskatchewan.
Photo Date: October 10, 2011.

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