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I am accustomed to seeing a Coyote or two on each visit I make to the park in the early morning before bikers, dog-walkers, joggers, and humanity in general get out and about. But the experience I had this morning put my previous sightings in the shade. But the Coyote count didn’t stop at three. ………
Much like Carrie’s recent experiences being hoodwinked by non-bird sources of birdy-sounding calls , I’ve had my share of animal encounters out in the field. We’ve got coyotes in Chicago and its suburbs, but I’ve never bumped into one in the field. Through the windows of our van, but good looks nevertheless.).
The lagoon outside offered other experiences too. Golden Gate Park was next and it delivered with a family of Great Horned Owls , nesting Cooper’s Hawks and Red-shouldered Hawks , coyotes, an annual American Bittern , Belted Kingfishers , Brown Creepers , and a host of small songbirds that I’m still getting to know.
One of the wonderful experiences when birding away from your home turf is the potential to come across creatures other than birds with which you may not be familiar. Well, they were foraging in the grass when they weren’t running out in the road, which is an unfortunate habit that they have.
Horned Screamer Michael McDonald is a lot like Wile E Coyote and would like to see a Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo ! They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. My most-desired Brazilian bird? It seemed like a really fun way to spend the day!
Coyote as it stayed just out of acceptable camera-range in Irvine Regional Park. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But his favorite, and therefore Best Bird of the Weekend, was a Greater Roadrunner which decided to pretend Corey was Wile E. How about you?
We also saw Prairie Dogs , Bison , Mule Deer , Abert’s Squirrel and Coyote. We stopped at Rosie’s Diner. Honest food in a fifties’ diner while reminiscing about all those movies you have seen about diners in the fifties. I can recommend it. I ticked off 9 lifers. All bird and animal pictures are Brad’s.
I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats. That was one of his cats.
Great Gray Owl taking the bait (photo by Nathalie Fortier) At the end of the experience, she posted her photographs clearly stating that the bird was baited, and leaving the mouse in most photos. One wouldn’t tether a rabbit out to get a shot of a fox or a coyote, or is that somehow different?
Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. .” Osborn is a superlative natural history writer.
This section gives brief descriptions of the birds painted in the Portfolio section, sometimes elaborating on the behavior portrayed in the portrait (the advantages of flying at night for White-crowned Sparrow), sometimes giving additional facts of interest with a small dollop of humor (Greater Roadrunners are not in a perpetual war with coyotes).
Mauricio and Melba picked me up and if it weren’t for the Coyote we saw on the way it would have taken us 5 minutes to reach Chipinque Parque Ecologico. Amazingly, everyone showed up at dawn except for one person, who’d had a near-death experience with me on Colombia’s Sumapaz paramo, an acceptable excuse for a no-show. Now it took 6.
So, this pair (I assume there are two, though I only saw one today) of eagles has a territory including small dogs and stray children, baby coyotes, crows, but mainly squirrels and marmots right around its nest, and a major river backed up by a large dam about a mile or two away (the Mississippi) and several lakes.
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