Gear down......check

Full flaps........check

Rudder deployed.......check.

:)


I have a target rich environment for waterfowl this time of year, don't often get good shooting light like this though. We say a high of 40* today but the wind was clocking 17 mph so it was cold. Pic's make it look warm. :)

Agreed! Great job capturing the last second mechanics of that little guy's landing.

Now these aren't necessarily the greatest of pictures...but the subject is of note. I took these about 7:30 this morning out my bedroom door. The hay bales are about 400' from my house. I first saw the critter jump on a mouse out in the field when he was about halfway across the field closer to the house. I got a few shots of him in the field before he made his way over to the bales.

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Just like a dog, he scratched a bit, rubbed his face on the hay...then finally settled down for a nap...

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I did catch him mid jump up onto the hay bale...

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The wife said he slept up there until about 9:30 am or so before he snuck away.

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That guys appears pretty comfy in his surroundings......socialized coyotes in your hood?

We get them around the resort areas in Central Oregon, at the family ranch in NE Oregon not so much.......they're in full stealth mode up there in open range country.

I've lived out here at this place for 14 years, that is the second time ever I've laid eyes on one. We hear them quite regularly howling in the middle of the night, but you don't seem them in the daylight typically.

It was surreal... The wife was none too pleased when she saw how effortlessly he jumped up onto that bale. We've got a regular 4' cedar picket fence around our back yard that our small dogs stay inside. Pretty certain he could get over it if he really wanted too.

I see a coyote every other day here... lots of golf courses -- lots of rabbits and other nutritious food for them. They could care less about humans... they seem really well fed! LOL

GREAT photos Lance! Grainy or not -- you usually see stuff when you don't have a camera with you.

Thanks Greg. Yeah, it was the lack of light that killed them. If it had been sunny and not overcast they would have turned out pretty good. That's with a Sony Point and Shoot BTW, in the auto setting. :D I love this camera.

Pretty cool pictures. We see them a bunch on the local trails sometimes they trot with us sometimes they run away. Personally I prefer when they run away

They're thick at the ranch, burrows in draws 100 yds from the house and the multiple howling choruses down the river valley at night can get downright spooky. They've been harmless over the 100+ years the family has had the ranch there's been no human encounter issues. When they pack up and get on deer it's not pretty........so when we see them it's .223/.308 time.

no, this is what im picturing