Coyotes on Calabasas Road

[ritaxis]

This afternoon I heard this interesting yipping. Puppy yipping: "le'go of my ear you're hurting me I'll get you back with my sharp little milk teeth you nasty little brother" yipping. I looked out Gloria's sliding door, and there, maybe a hundred feet downslope, was a pack of coyotes, three adults and four babies, all kind of doofing around in the cut grass. The little ones were doing just what it sounded like, tumbling over and over and generally making nuisances of themselves. One adult kept scratching himself because summer is flea season. The mother noticed me right away and considered for a while before relocating the whole pack in the shadows where I could no longer steal their souls. I do not know what the third adult was doing.

I've put up eight pictures in the gallery under "Calabasas Road." Here are the best ones -- I'm still not happy with the pictures I'm getting of animals, I need to work on it more.

Comments

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

my animal photographs are of similar quality to yours -- one can recognize the animal, and it's nifty as a memory of "oh look what i saw today", but it's not really good photography. the main reason is that to get good wild animal photographs one basically has to be very patient, and sit in one place, hidden away, for a long time, and shoot a gazillion images with a long lens on a tripod to get a few good ones of just the right composition and non-blurry motion, oh -- and the right light. anything good one gets otherwise is just dumb luck. :) i'm not patient enough. or rather ... i can be patient enough if i make this my job for the time being. i did it a lot when i was young, sit for hours behind a blind i built, or up in a tree, waiting for deer or other wild animals to show themselves (i didn't have a camera then). but now, i never get around to it. even with the cats who're basically always around, most of my photos are pedestrian.

plants, that's my forte. they sit still!