{"id":1213,"date":"2011-03-21T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2011-04-15T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:59:47","slug":"coyote-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Coyote hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1214\" title=\"coyotebite110320h\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/coyotebite110320h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" \/>At noon on Sunday, I watched a coyote hunting in a large field of snow. I saw it pounce, dig in the snow, and come up with something in its mouth (right). It is likely that it caught a vole. Voles run around under the snow gathering food, and the coyote would be able to listen for them and know where to dig.<\/p>\n<p>I knew about this behaviour, but had never seen it before. I had been running an errand, but had allocated enough time to stop if I saw something interesting beside the road. This was it. This coyote clearly merited taking out a tripod and a longer lens. As I measured it later (using Google Earth), the distance to the animal was about 300 meters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 6px; width: 220px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website offers\u00a0more pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/carnivores\/coyotes\/index.html\">coyotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sequence of pictures (below) shows the results. They are not superb, but the behaviour was fun to watch. The coyote first looked around (but, did not notice me); it listened intently to something under the snow; it pounced; it dug; it came up empty.\u00a0I did not see it catch another vole, and eventually we each wandered away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1236\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/coyote110320as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1237\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/coyote110320bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1238\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/coyote110320cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1239\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/coyote110320ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1240\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/coyote110320es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At noon on Sunday, I watched a coyote hunting in a large field of snow. I saw it pounce, dig in the snow, and come up with something in its mouth (right). It is likely that it caught a vole. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}