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"THE BEACHCOMBER" - Coyote

April 14, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"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 predat...

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"ON THE BEACH" - Beaver (North American)

April 09, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"ON THE BEACH" Beaver (North American) - 7 Photos It's Spring & the beavers are beginning to appear around sunset, trying to pack on as many calories to make up for any weight lost over the winter months. Unlike bears, they don't hibernate. Beavers do venture out during the colder months providing there is ample open water in their ponds to all...

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"A SQUIRREL OF A DIFFERENT COLOUR" - Eastern Gray Squirrel (Red Phase)

April 02, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"A SQUIRREL OF A DIFFERENT COLOUR" Eastern Gray Squirrel (Red Phase) - 4 Photos The first point to be made regarding the four photos that follow is: 1. There has been no tampering with the colouring of the squirrel during the photo developing or editing. The original photos were cropped and some minor editing performed but the colour of the squ...

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"BETCHA CAN'T EAT JUST ONE" - Red Squirrel

March 31, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"BETCHA CAN'T EAT JUST ONE" Northern Red Squirrel - 9 Photos Using the iconic slogan for Lay's Potato Chips, "Betcha Can't Eat Just One", it appears pine nuts are to North American Red Squirrels much like potato chips are to people. Pine nuts are the edible seeds of certain varieties of pine trees & are contained within the female cones. The...

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"THEY GROW UP SO QUICKLY" - Coyote

March 29, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"THEY GROW UP SO QUICKLY" Coyote - 6 Photos Learning from last year's youngsters, as Spring progresses, young coyotes quickly mature and gain more endurance and they become more like their parents, i.e. elusive. As they gain greater experience, they hunt further afield and previous hunting grounds which potentially provided easier meals (such a...

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"THE TELL" - Coyote

March 26, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"THE TELL" Coyote - 6 Photos In body language a "tell" can refer to subtle body language or facial expressions that hint at a person's (or in this case wildlife's) true feeling or intentions. And the type of tell can be specific to an individual. Last year, a young female coyote that I photographed had the "tell" of sitting for some time before...

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"SUNSHINE GETAWAY" - Coyote

March 23, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"SUNSHINE GETAWAY" Coyote - 3 Photos Taken just as the sun was setting, the coyote highlighted in the photos below, came bounding down the hill, paused and then bounded back up again having spotted me. Definitely an adult coyote, not certain of the gender but full grown with all the wariness of his/her species. No curiosity of youth here. Re...

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"CANID FISHERMAN" - Coyote

March 20, 2025 • 1 Comment

"CANID FISHERMAN" Coyote - 7 Photos Wolves on Vancouver Island, B.C. have been documented fishing for salmon. But this was my first time I have witnessed a coyote, particularly a youngster, "fishing" for Prussian Carp in a small stream covered with slushy ice. This particular wetland area has small channels or streams that connect to larger pon...

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"COYOTE IN BOOTS" - Coyote

March 18, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"COYOTE IN BOOTS" Coyote - 5 Photos So remaking the name of "Puss in Boots" to suit a mucky footed canid, you now have a young coyote with thick mud covering her paws from hunting in a wet creek area, which hopefully helps with the traction across the ice. This is EmCee or MC (Mini Coyote), again, so distinguishable by her very small size and...

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