Are coyotes scavengers3/9/2023 One of them was carrying very large scraps like this piece of frozen hide and hair. Sometimes the food item was just a small piece of flesh but occasionally… Many of the magpies flew off with food scraps (caching them perhaps) and individuals sometimes landed very close to my pickup with those scraps in their bills. They would gorge themselves at the carcass and then fly to a nearby perch in groups to rest for a few minutes and then return to the deer and have at it again. The magpies had so much food available that they didn’t seem to know what to do with it all. There were sometimes twice this many on it but they were difficult to photograph in these conditions.ġ/1000, f/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc , not baited, set up or called in It surprised me a little that the coyote spent most of its time feeding on the head of the buck while the magpies were busy at the body.ġ/2000, f/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc , not baited, set up or called inĪt times you could barely see the carcass for the magpies. The coyote and the birds mostly ignored each other but a couple of times the coyote rushed at the birds to flush them off.ġ/2500, f/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc , not baited, set up or called in Magpies probably consumed more of the carcass than the coyotes did. Coyote fights over food can be vicious.ġ/1600, f/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc , not baited, set up or called in It wasn’t nervous about my presence on the road so I’m pretty sure it was afraid that the original two coyotes would return. It kept a sharp lookout in all directions and jumped and ran off a few yards at the slightest perceived indication of potential danger. ![]() This coyote was extremely nervous and wary. Later we found this lone coyote feeding on the unexpected bounty. The first time I approached this deer carcass there were two coyotes feeding on it but they soon ran off carrying some of the spoils. It was cloudy with relatively low light so once again I was shooting at high ISO’s.ġ/1600, f/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc , not baited, set up or called in I include this photo partly so you can see what shooting conditions were like, especially early on. Jackrabbits find it tough going through that much snow so they love to follow the tracks. You can see by the drag marks in-between the tracks that the snow was deep enough that many vehicles were pushing snow in front of them. Lower parts of the island had been virtually snowless the day before but overnight about 7″ of fresh snow fell and I was the first one to plow through it on most of the roads. ![]() Yesterday was a good day for some of the scavengers on Antelope Island.ġ/2000, f/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon 100-400 170mm, not baited, set up or called in
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