Morning Stalker
Location: Cooke's Meadow, Ca
Field Notes: Canon EOS 1, 200mm 1/500 sec @ f/2.8 ISO 200
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If you know where to be, you can see coyotes on any morning in Yosemite Valley. I was in the valley 3 days a week this winter and knew exactly where they would be at what time and sure enough, they followed the same trail daily, hunting for mice below the frozen ground. Because I knew exactly where he was going to go, and I could tell he was beginning to recognize me, I went ahead and hid in a ditch where I knew he was going to walk directly past. As I lay on the cold dirt, I would poke my head out periodicly and sure enough he would be getting closer and closer. Soon I could hear him rite above me playing around in the frozen grass. When I rolled over to get a better view, the frozen dirt crunched. My coyote friend heard, looked, and gave me a look as if to mock me for even trying to outsmart him. I fired off one frame and he went back to his business of finding his breakfast and I walked off to find mine.
-Jeffrey Murray
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