"THE BEACHCOMBER"

Coyote - 6 Photos

The definition of a beachcomber is "a person who walks along a beach looking for valuable or interesting items" but, of course, Oxford doesn't appear to know that coyotes do this too.

Take one young coyote combing the beach, looking for valuable or interesting items to eat.

Coyotes are opportunistic predators in that they can adapt their strategy based on the availability and abundance of prey types. And they are also a member of Nature's clean-up crew, i.e. they will scavenge on dead carcasses. In November 2024, I saw a family of coyotes (together with ravens & magpies) dining on a large Mule Deer carcass, most likely the remains of a cougar kill. (See blog of December 10, 2024, "TAKE A SNOW DAY".)

But this coyote was looking for smaller fare such as rodents, pheasants, ducks & yes, even having a look along the shoreline for fish she could catch in the shallower waters.

What she lacks in size, she definitely makes up for in stealth & brain power.

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