Title Image

Title Image

About:

This blog is predominately about camera trapping in California. We camera trap to save our souls and to teach primary school students about biology and conservation. We will also touch on other camera trapping news and musings, sets from afar, mediocre herpetology, sucky birding, and other natural history discussions.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Life & Times of Don Coyote (an excerpt)

One of the recurring characters at Younger Lagoon Reserve is a character dubbed “Don Coyote” by Jake. This coyote is easily recognized with his ragged, mangy appearance, especially on the tail.

Don made an appearance in the Bushnell marsh set 005. The results from that set were promising, so we didn’t want to leave the marsh. Bobcat prints o’plenty were seen about 50 feet from set 005, thus a decision was made to move the cam to this area. It was placed in a tree looking down at an angle at the print-laden path.


Two days in Don gave his greetings, stopping at a fallen branch doused in Fox Frenzy.


Showing his biting tendencies

Leaving his mark

Bobcat visit

Don visiting his work the next day


Later, two bobcats came to play


About two weeks later, Don inspects the play area


and again left his mark

What lies in the future for the remarkable Don Coyote? I am guessing biting and peeing, but perhaps this canine will entertain us with even greater wonders!



Bonus goodness: Upon leaving, we observed a Bobcat cruising through the mustard fields outside the reserve!


Bobcat outside the reserve

2 comments:

  1. Nice!

    I've also had good luck with Fox Frenzy on the 'yotes!

    Like the pics of the two cats playing...

    ReplyDelete
  2. I really liked how the angle turned out on this set. We should try it again when things dry up a bit. It will be baby raccoon season soon too.

    ReplyDelete