• Friday-What'sUP July 23 - 06:01 pm

The patience of Frederic W. Koski and his camera, never ceases to amaze me. Time and again he manages to freeze the moment with the wildlife that abounds here UP North, like today's photos. He not only snapped one good shot of the unsuspecting coyote, but he grabbed three. Then to put the icing on the cake, so to speak, he expertly captured the last shot with the coyote and a sandhill crane together and both looking quite unaware of the proximity of the other. Seems to me if either had been aware of the other, there would have been feathers flying or a hasty escape with wings flapping wildly. Nice shutter-work, Frederic!

Awesome pictures!!!

Don't ya just love it when you come upon wildlife? Awesome!!!

As always, Fred, Superior work! Clearly some of the very best on The Cam. Thank you.

The last pic of the coyote almost makes you think he/she could be a lovable soul.

I agree...Awesome! The last photo reminds of the Roadrunner cartoon, as if that bird has something up its sleeve (wing) just waiting for the coyote.

Amazing photos today I just love the third one, heads turned like he's asking "are you talking to me"

Those are awesome pictures, I'm wondering if that coyote knows something about a young crane nearby.
I have a bug question, as in what's this?

I heard a coyote chorus this morning @ 5:30 at the north end of L.L. Perhaps celebrating over a breakfast of unlucky fawn or rabbit?

Richard:
That beetle may be a Northeastern Sawyer. I did a search on "beetles with long antennae" and then clicked on a link to the asian longhorn beetle. They provide a list of "look alikes" and the northeastern sawyer is one that they describe.

http://www.uvm.edu/albeetle/identification/Malenototus.jpg

Last summer I watched a coyote try to sneak up on three sand hill cranes. When the cranes spotted the coyote the began to walk toward him. The coyote aperently didn't like the look of those long beaks and ran the other way.

Hi
The shot of the coyote and the crane is great. They may have been unaware of each other; one may have been aware and one unaware(the coyote has a sense of smell in addtion to eyesight); or they both may have been aware of each other. If the latter, the coyote may not have been hungry or may have decided that the adult crane was not a good choice as prey. The crane may have felt confident of its ability to evade the coyote it could see.

I am not so sure that a coyote would have taken on an adult crane
- or, at least, without suffering some consequences!

Have coyotes running around here in Commerce Twp., they come into my back yard they'll be intoduced to my Browning 12 gauge! Gotta protect the pets.

The coyotes UP here are gonna meet my Old Henry.
Too many here and now we've been invaded by cougars. Is this a strange balance of nature?

Maybe the balance of nature may be tilting a wee bit toward the orignal population, way before my forefathers lived in Keewanaw? We've been having sightings and photos of a bear or two south of here maybe 50 miles. This is well south of the Wisconsin state line. We ARE in their natural grounds remember. And coyotes are every where.

Thanks for the help on the bug to David and to Mary for fixing my post. Looks like David hit it spot on.

We have coyotes calling home about 150 yards from our backyard but across the fence in the neighbors field. The other day they started up their yapping and our deck door was open, our Scottish Terriers aggressively answered back and the coyotes quieted down. Thankfully there was a door and a lot of space between them all, or I will grant you our Scotties would have lost the battle and their lives. There has been a lot of small to medium size dogs around here that have been killed by coyotes, even in the city limits. Too many of them around.

How bout the problem we now have with the FISHER's. Got my six shooter handy,coyote's wolve's, cougars, fisher's not welcome on my 40.Somebody's gonna get hurt yet.

Wow!!! WOW, WOW, WOW!!! Fabulous pictures Frederic and yes...some of the FINEST on this site! Excellent job! WOW!

Thank you for the comments. The cranes (2 of them) and coyote were aware of each other, I saw them again a week later same place.

You got a HENRY? WOW! Tell us more about it.

My hubby golfs at Palmer Park which is part of Dee-troit and that golf course has a ton of fox's which will come right up to them while they're trying to golf. They actually sit and watch them, probably looking for hand-outs. My hubby's going to take his camera this Thursday (golf day) and I will post.

Last winter the local group of hunters took 24 coyotes out of the square mile that we live in.
One of the hunters in that group had 42 coyotes that he had shot hanging on the cyclone fence along his driveway..!!

omgosh... what an awesome bunch of photos! not at all surprised to see it was Frederic Koski... always awesome photography from him!